Text by BWF staff and Badminton Oceania. Photo credit: New Zealand Badminton Open Two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan, one of the all-time greats, announced his exit from the Chinese national team on Saturday 4 July, indicating his retirement from international badminton. The Chinese left-hander, winner of Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012 and five World…
DetailsPictured: Kiribati Badminton Federation’s Shuttle Time Co-Ordinator, Tongoboo Beero. Olympic Day commemorates the day that the International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894. The annual event is a celebration of sport, health, and ‘being the best you can be’, inviting everyone around the globe to be active and celebrate the Olympic values of Excellence, Respect…
DetailsPictured: Shuttle Time participants in Kiribati. Text: BWF staff and Badminton Oceania Remember the study by Shinji Takahashi at Tohoku Gakuin University which proved how useful badminton was to boost ‘executive function’? The benefits of badminton continue to be researched, with a team from Coventry University (in England), who have recently proven the significance of…
DetailsFollowing the release of the revamped tournament calendar for the remainder of the 2020 season, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) can announce further changes to the status of tournaments in this period – including a number of HSBC BWF World Tour events. The fast-changing landscape of the COVID-19 situation has meant that BWF and its…
DetailsThe Badminton World Federation (BWF) today announced the new dates for the BARFOOT & THOMPSON BWF World Junior Championships 2020, which were scheduled to be held in Auckland, New Zealand in September this year. The rescheduled dates for the world event are 11-24 January 2021. Only those athletes eligible for the originally scheduled championships will…
DetailsPictured: Anona Pak, New Zealand. Photo credit: Badminton Photo After taking home silver in last year’s Sydney International and this year’s VICTOR Oceania Women’s Team Championships in Ballarat, New Zealand’s Anona Pak was ready to embark on an eight-week tournament stint around Europe as she pursued Olympic qualification with mixed doubles partner, Oliver Leydon-Davis. Oliver…
DetailsPictured: Badminton Cook Islands President Thomas Mereana-Ngauru (left) with Shuttle Time teachers Badminton Cook Islands celebrated one of their biggest triumphs at the Cook Islands Sports Awards over the weekend. Collectively, the organisation was nominated in six categories, with President Thomas Mereana-Ngauru going on to win the Sports Administrator of the Year for the second…
DetailsPhoto credit: Badminton Photo Three-time Oceania women’s doubles champion and world #26, Gronya Somerville, was recently announced as one of the players selected in the second phase of the BWF’s star creation programme – an initiative which has been designed to help grow the global popularity of badminton players and of badminton as a sport.…
DetailsPictured left to right: Rupinder, Aveer, Amreen and Mandeep Virk The International Day of Families is a movement observed by the United Nations to raise awareness around the importance of communities and families and their significant impacts on one antoher. One fine example of strong community spirit displayed by a family comes from the region…
Details“It was difficult to adjust to new lifestyle at the beginning, lives just kind of stopped all of a sudden” The sudden interruption of the COVID-19 pandemic had athletes all around the world rethinking their choices. For Australia’s six-time continental champion, Wendy Chen, a strategically planned tournament calendar was quickly made redundant. Despite the six…
DetailsBWF Media Statement Digital and social media plays an important role in promoting sports participation and generating engagement for fans. In recognition of the need that the long-term growth of badminton is dependent on creating star players who act as role models for badminton and inspire fans across the world, the Badminton World Federation (BWF)…
DetailsSeven Para badminton players extended their isolation bubble via Zoom conference call this week, connecting wheelchair athletes from New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia to maintain the community spirit which thrives on Oceania’s Para badminton scene. Adapting to the COVID-19 era, Papua New Guinea’s coach (Brian Karo) joined Badminton Oceania’s Coaching and Development Officer…
DetailsIt has been five years since BWF’s Integrity Unit was formed. In this time, BWF’s ‘i am badminton’ awareness campaign has been at the forefront of our efforts to communicate our approach to integrity. On Wednesday 22 April, the BWF announced a new role call of global superstars from the World Tour and Para badminton circuit…
DetailsPictured: Tahiti’s Louis Beaubois holding a #WhiteCard to celebrate International Day of Sport Development and Peace Louis Beaubois made history last year alongside Teiva Politi as they became the first juniors from Tahiti to compete at the BWF World Junior Championships 2019. The recently turned 18-year-old has every intention of competing again this year as…
DetailsRemember the study from 2019 which found that badminton could be better for your brain, compared to running on a treadmill? In an experiment led by Shinji Takahashi at Tohoku Gakuin University, 20 participants took a cognitive test before and after exercise. The results found that performance was boosted after participants played a complex sport, like…
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