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…
Pictured: Richard Wong, presented with formal acknowledgement certificate at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Australia’s Richard Wong has celebrated an illustrious technical official career in the badminton world. Progressing through the ranks, Richard completed one term (since 2017) as a BWF Line Judge, while also umpiring (Oceania Accredited Umpire) at numerous badminton tournaments. His experiences…
Pictured (left to right): Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen, Simon Leung/Gronya Somerville, Setyana Mapasa/Gronya Somerville. Photo Credit: Badminton Photo The Australian Olympic team managed to end their campaign on a high this week as both the women’s singles and doubles players/pairs won their final group stage matches. It was a tense four days of group stage action…
Australian Paralympic Committee Press Release Shortly after badminton was officially included on the program for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Grant Manzoney had a heart-to-heart chat with National Para-badminton coach Ian Bridge. “Ian was running the group I was playing in at the time, it was before he became national coach, but he saw I had…
Pictured: Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen. Photo credit: Australian Olympic Committee The reigning and six-time Oceania women’s singles champion, Wendy Chen, is embarking on an adventure to compete in her second Olympic Games – having previously played in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The two-time Olympian will be hoping to go one better than Rio, where she…
Pictured: Richard Wong (line judge), Australia. Oceania Line Judge, Richard Wong (from Australia) is attending his first Olympic Games in Tokyo as a line judge. His past experience at major sporting events around the world has built up to this moment – a pinnacle in any technical official’s career. Listen to what Richard has to…
Pictured: Shevaun Moody (far right) – line Judge at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games. BWF Line Judge, Shevaun Moody (from Australia) will be attending her first Olympic Games in Tokyo. Excited by her first Olympics experience, Shevaun tells us more about her journey as a line judge, giving an insight into the intense levels of…
Pictured: Setyana Mapasa. Photo credit: Australian Olympic Committee In five days, Setyana Mapasa will be making her Olympic debut in Tokyo, representing Australia in the Women’s Doubles. Setyana narrowly missed out on competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as she was ruled ineligible by the governing body following complication with her nationality change from…
Pictured: Gronya Somerville. Photo credit: Australian Olympic Committee Another Olympic debutant in Tokyo is Gronya Somerville, representing Australia in the Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles events. Gronya came close to qualification in Rio 2016 with her partner, Setyana Mapasa. However, Mapasa was ruled ineligible by the governing body following complication with her nationality change from…
Pictured: Trish Gubb (Umpire), New Zealand. Photo Credit: Badminton Photo BWF Certificated Umpire, Trish Gubb (from New Zealand) will be attending her second Olympic Games and her first Paralympic Games as an umpire in Tokyo. Testament to her growth and experience as an umpire, Trish is one of only two umpires who will be umpiring…