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Shuttlecocks also have a high top speed compared to the balls in other racquet sports, making badminton the fastest racquet sport in the world. The flight of the shuttlecock gives the sport its distinctive nature, and in certain languages the sport is named by reference to this feature (e.g., German Federball, literally feather-ball).
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The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada , Denmark , England , France , Ireland , Netherlands , New Zealand , Scotland and Wales .
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; فارسی; Français; Galego; 한국어
The 2025 BWF season is the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2025 badminton season. The world badminton tournament in 2025 consists of: 1. BWF tournaments (Grade 1; Major Events) BWF World Mixed Team Championships (Sudirman Cup) BWF World Championships; 2. BWF World Tour (Grade 2)
The 2025 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships is held in Baku, Azerbaijan, between 12 and 16 February 2025 and organised by Badminton Europe and Azerbaijan Badminton Federation. The host location was announced in April 2024 by Badminton Europe. [1] [2] These championships also act as the European qualification event for 2025 Sudirman Cup.
Gao Ling won a total of 4 olympic medals in badminton, with 2 being consecutive mixed doubles gold Badminton is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games . Badminton was first held as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Summer Olympics , and was an exhibition sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics ; the men's and women's singles and doubles have ...
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...