Pictured: Grant Manzoney, Australia. Photo credit = Craig Burgess, Badminton Photo It wasn’t the start that Australia wanted in their first appearance in Para-Badminton at the Paralympic Games, but Grant Manzoney and Caitlin Dransfield will take the experience and look to improve on Friday after losing their opening matches. Dransfield’s first match in the SL4…
Pictured (left to right): Ian Bridge, Grant Manzoney and Caitlin Dransfield. Photo credit: Paralympics Australia It’s the speed of the game that got Grant Manzoney and Caitlin Dransfield hooked. The raw pace of the world’s fastest racquet sport. And once they were hooked, their Paralympic dream began. This is the first time Para-Badminton will appear…
Pictured: Karen Arnold, line judging at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Australian line judge, Karen Arnold, has arrived in Tokyo, ready to officiate in the Para badminton tournament which starts tomorrow. Despite having over a year and a half away from international competitions, Karen has been preparing for the sport’s biggest stage by reviewing…
Wallis and Futuna will become the seventeenth member of Badminton Oceania, alongside: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia (associate member), New Zealand, Northern Marianas (associate member), Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga and Tuvalu. Like New Caledonia and Northern Marianas, Wallis and Futuna is an associate member, simply…
Pictured: Justin Zuo, New Zealand, umpiring at the Singapore Open 2017. Photo Credit: Badminton Photo “I am so glad that this Paralympic Games will be my retirement appointment. It’s not only a memorable event for me, but also an honorable recognition from Badminton Oceania” Reflective and grateful words from the Oceania Certificated Umpire, Justin Zuo,…
The much-awaited draw for the 14 events at Para badminton’s debut at the Paralympics was conducted today at the Main Press Centre in Tokyo today. Australia’s Caitlin Dransfield and Grant Manzoney were among the players to be pulled out of the boxes in their respective disciplines: Caitlin Dransfield – Women’s Singles SL4 Grant Manzoney -…
Pictured: The Sudirman Cup. Photo Credit: Badminton Photo Last night, the BWF conducted the live draw for the upcoming TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup 2021, which is being held in Vantaa (Finland), the first time the country is hosting a major BWF event. Originally, Australia qualified from Oceania for the Sudirman Cup Finals. The VICTOR Oceania…
Pictured: Ravi Nadan, holding the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games Players were not the only group to celebrate the announcement of Para badminton being added to the Paralympic programme at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It boosts the fantastic opportunities available for technical officials too, with a chance to demonstrate their…
Nellie Ruth Leva is an inspirational leader and athlete in Papua New Guinea’s sporting circles. In 2020, she was part of the quadrant which competed in the VICTOR Oceania Para Badminton Championships, becoming PNG’s first athletes to compete in an international badminton tournament. Among them, they collected four medals and continued to inspire a legacy…
On Wednesday 18 August 2021, the BWF made a live draw for the TotalEnergies BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals 2021, which will take place from 9 -17 October 2021. In the Uber Cup draw, both qualifiers from Oceania and Africa (Tahiti and Egypt) were drawn into the same group. Meanwhile, in the Thomas Cup…