Excitement is building with two international badminton tournaments within two weeks in the beautiful Northern Mariana Islands. As Badminton Oceania’s northern most member country and part of the Mariana Archipelago, the capital, Saipan will host the Northern Marianas Open followed by the Saipan International. Due to a BWF regulation change in late 2022 allowing a country…
DetailsThe Humans of Shuttle Time series from the Badminton World Federation shares the viewpoints of those who contribute to grassroots badminton development. Josefa Matasau, shuttle time teacher from Fiji, shares his story of being brought up in Fiji and the experiences that he has gone through in the shuttle time program. I hail from the beautiful…
DetailsOver the past two months, members of the Australian Falcons have spent time traveling, training, and playing tournaments across Europe gaining valuable international experience and world ranking points. With the Netherlands National Training Centre as base camp, eleven players; a mixture of experienced campaigners and young up and coming players and National Coach; Leanne Choo…
DetailsNews aplenty in the April edition of What’s Happening, Badminton Oceania’s monthly newsletter. Click here to read
DetailsFeatured above from left to right – Grant Manzoney, David Templeman, Julie Carrel, Nang Nquyen Van, Mark Cunningham, Caitlyn Dransfield, Lochan Cowper Our Secretary General, Julie Carrel was in Perth, Western Australia for the launch of the “Festival of Badminton” happening in the seaside location of Mandurah, 70km south of the State Capital – Perth,…
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DetailsThe Humans of Shuttle Time series from the Badminton World Federation shares the viewpoints of those who contribute to grassroots badminton development. Violaine Dauptain, shuttle time teacher from Wallis and Futuna, Badminton Oceania’s most recent member association shares her story of how she got into badminton and the influence she is having on the development…
DetailsBadminton Oceania is one of five Continental Confederations working closely with the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to implement a wide range of development programmes and events in the Oceania Region in partnership with our 17 Member Countries. The Executive Board leads the organisation of 6 full-time and 1 part-time staff. This full-time Communications and Marketing…
DetailsPictured: VICTOR Oceania Mixed Team Championships 2023 Podium. Photo Credit: Paul Foxall On the final day of the VICTOR Oceania Championships 2023, Australia and New Zealand were playing off for the gold medal once again. They are the only nations from Oceania to have ever competed for gold and silver since the Open Mixed Team…
DetailsPictured: Lata ‘Isitolo and Mele Kei (Tonga). Photo Credit: Paul Foxall Tonga were last seen on the international badminton scene at the VICTOR Oceania Championships 2020 in Ballarat. Three years later, they have sent a contingent to compete in the Continental Championships once again. While they had to contend with the global COVID-19 pandemic like…
DetailsPictured: Team Cook Islands. Photo Credit: Paul Foxall This year, a team from the Cook Islands entered the VICTOR Oceania Open Mixed Team Championships for the very first time. Their entry is testament to the collaboration between Badminton Oceania and Badminton Cook Islands over player development initiatives and coach development opportunities which helped them reach…
DetailsJUNIOR INDIVIDUALS An even spread of titles among the Australian players in the VICTOR Oceania Junior Championships as they won all five of the titles on offer. Daniel Hu tried as hard as he could to stop the flow of titles to Australia particularly in the second game of his match with top seed Jie…
DetailsJUNIOR INDIVIDUALS Australia has dominated the VICTOR Oceania Junior Championships, particularly in the singles where three out of four semifinalists in men’s and women’s U19 singles were from the nation. However to break things up Daniel Hu from Auckland defeated Shrey Dhand twice in one day to reach two title deciders. Hu accounted for fourth…
DetailsPictured: Lucas Julliot, New Caledonia. Photo credit: Paul Foxall JUNIOR INDIVIDUALS The drama began to unfold on day two of the VICTOR Oceania Junior Championships, as a handful of top seeded players fell in the rounds of 16. There were two upsets in the men’s singles draw as the third and eighth seeds were knocked…
DetailsPictured: Janelle Pangilinan, Northern Marianas. Photo credit: Paul Foxall Junior Individuals The VICTOR Oceania Junior Individual Championships 2023 opened proceedings today at Auckland Badminton Stadium. It was a largely successful day for the players from Australia and New Zealand. The Cook Islands’ Tereapii Akavi being one of the only non-Australian/New Zealand players to progress into…
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