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The Badminton Association of England (BAE) published these rules in 1893 and officially launched the sport at a house called "Dunbar" [c] in Portsmouth on 13 September. [12] The BAE started the first badminton competition, the All England Open Badminton Championships for gentlemen's doubles, ladies' doubles, and mixed doubles, in 1899. [ 5 ]
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
2015 - John Kruk, Dan Shulman and Jessica Mendoza called the 2015 American League Wild Card Game on October 6, and Mendoza thus became the first female analyst in Major League Baseball postseason history. [378] 2015 – Saina Nehwal became the first Indian women's player to be World No.1 in badminton. [379]
This engraving on wood shows gymnastics, monkey bars, and synchronised Indian club swinging being practiced in a large gym run by the YMCA. London, c. 1888. Gymnastics, climbing, fencing, and boxing in a commercial gym environment. Roper's gymnasium, Philadelphia, c. 1831. Ballistic training. Throwing the javelin [49] Plyometrics training ...
The event in gymnastics performed on the floor is called floor exercise. In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats. The floor event now occurs on a carpeted 12 metres (39 ft) x 12 metres (39 ft) square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood , which is supported by ...
A school which was known as Miss Bartlett's School for Young Ladies in 1898 was based at Badminton House in Clifton in Bristol. [2] In 1911 it took Baker on trial and she was soon in charge of the school. She and Rendall transformed the school and by the end of the first world war the majority of the school's eight staff had degrees. [1]
Whether or not the sport of badminton was re-introduced from British India or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by John Wootton, as the tradition of the house has it), [7] it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.
Dudley Allen Sargent was born in Belfast, Maine on September 29, 1849, the son of Benjamin Sargent, a ship carpenter and sparmaker, and Caroline Rogers Sargent. [1] His birthplace and childhood home was located on the west side of Penobscot Bay, and the bay and harbor provided much opportunity for activity.