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Riocentro Pavilion 4 was the venue of badminton competition. The badminton tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 11 to 20 August at the fourth pavilion of Riocentro. A total of 172 athletes competed in five events: men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. [1]
10 7 12 George Robotham: 4 9 McCoig 15 15 4 Tan Yee Khan: 15 15 Khan 7 13 13 Colin Beacom: 7 4 Huang 15 15 6 Yew Cheng Hoe: 15 15 Hoe 8 8 11 Yves Paré: 10 8 Hoe 15 15 3 Suresh Goel: 15 15 Goel 6 10 14 Howard Jennings: 3 2 Hoe 15 15 Bronze medal match 7 Dinesh Khanna: 15 15 Khanna 6 12 10 Edward Paterson: 10 4 Khanna 15 15 McCoig 8 7 2 Roger ...
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Badminton fails to receive substantial media attention in the United States and with that comes low wages. Participants can earn up to $15,000 for winning a championship, which is a relatively small amount of money in comparison to an average football player that has a salary of $2.7 million.
There is also a separate U.S. Open Badminton Championships which is open to foreign competitors. The history of the two tournaments is rather complicated. Prior to 1954 all U.S. Badminton Championships had a "closed" format with only U.S. citizens and residents eligible to compete. From 1954 through 1969 the tournament was open to foreign ...
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The 2016 BWF season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2017 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promoted the sport of badminton through an extensive worldwide program of events. These events had various purposes according to their ...
March 10 March 13 6,000 8 Romanian International 2016 Timișoara: March 17 March 20 6,000 9 II Jamaica International 2016 Kingston: March 17 March 20 6,000 10 XVII Giraldilla 2016 La Habana: March 24 March 27 6,000 11 Chile International Series 2016 Temuco: April 19 April 23 6,000 12 Dutch International 2016 Wateringen: April 21 April 24 10,000 13