Youth Pastor, Televine Masefau, of Samoa’s L.M.S. Pasefika Church is using badminton to restore faith in her community’s next generation. Televine Masefau, Front row on the right side. With the resources provided by BWF Shuttle Time, Televine is promoting health and wellbeing and helping children as young as five years find a new lease of…
DetailsPhoto credit Games News Service – Therese Rivers Fiji, Tahiti and New Caledonia opened with a dominant performance on day one of the Mixed Team event. Check out all the highlights from day one at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games badminton Mixed Team event. MORNING SESSION Tahiti and Fiji celebrated with a whitewash victory while…
DetailsNorthern Marianas arrived in Apia, Samoa with high spirits and an eagerness to learn as the badminton team take part in their first Pacific Games. The team are amongst six others competing in the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games Mixed Team event from Monday 8 – Wednesday 10 July 2019. Many players are regulars in their…
DetailsThe reigning regional Champions and aspiring Tokyo 2020 Olympians are through to the Semi-Finals at this month’s first BWF Tour Super 100 event – the YONEX Canada Open 2019. Gronya Somerville and Setyana Mapasa have previously been ranked as high as 18 in the world, but following an injury last year which struck Setyana’s leg,…
DetailsSamoa’s Charles Iamanu Faalogoifo could be up against the first seed in front of a home crowd in Samoa. The young player sprung onto the scene at this year’s VICTOR Oceania Junior Championships and has made the cut for the home team in the 2019 Pacific Games. In the first round of the Men’s Singles,…
DetailsOceania’s reigning Women’s Singles champion has been preparing for an upcoming month of intense competition in India. Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen is looking to qualify for her second Olympics Games after competing in Rio 2016. The singles specialist is competing in the 2019 YONEX Canada Open and US Open over the next month and is balancing…
DetailsPictured above: Danielle Whiteside, Fiji | Photo Credit: Badminton Photo Badminton returns to the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games after last being included in the 2011 New Caledonia edition. Five out of the eight countries entered into the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games Individual events form a diverse seedings report in 2019 which amplifies the range of…
DetailsEarlier this year, Fiji hosted a Paralympic Showcase in Nadi to coincide with the Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) AGM. During the event, Ateca Mataitoga was highlighted as a prospect for Para-Badminton, both as a player and coach. After deciding to put her own well-being at the forefront, Para-sport is a new addition to Ateca’s…
DetailsRunze Yan leads the charge as an influx of Oceania athletes compete in Mongolia. Players from New Zealand in Australia are competing in the Mongolia International Challenge 2019 this week. Australia’s Runze Yan will be the first player on court at 9am on Tuesday 25 June in the Men’s Singles qualifications. As the first seeded…
DetailsLast week, fifteen youngsters from Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and the Cook Islands travelled to Auckland to take part in the Pacific Development Squad training camp. While the aspiring players were taking part in various on and off court sessions, six team managers and coaches accompanied the teenagers and took part in the BWF Level 1…
DetailsAustralia’s Caitlin Dransfield is currently competing in Ireland at the FZ Forza Irish Para-Badminton International 2019 as she aims to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – the first time Para-Badminton will be played. The international Para-Badminton circuit comes with an added twist for Dransfield, as a smaller community of players on the elite…
DetailsSeven teams will compete in the Mixed Team badminton event at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games event from Monday 8 – Wednesday 10 July. Five months after the VICTOR Oceania Open Mixed Team Championships, where four out of these seven teams competed, the Pacific Islands unite for the prestigious quadrennial event. The teams have been…
DetailsThe VICTOR Oceania Championships 2020 will return to Victoria, at the Ken Kay Badminton Stadium in Ballarat, Australia, from 10 – 15 February 2020. Opening with the Men’s and Women’s Team Championships (10-12 Feb), the event will act as the qualifying event for the Thomas & Uber Cup Finals which take place in Denmark from…
DetailsFour singles players from Australia are competing in Quatre Bornes this week at the FLEET Mauritius International 2019. The two men’s singles players include Anthony Joe and Pit Seng Low, while the two women’s singles players are Louisa Ma and Yingzi Jiang. All four players qualified for the main draw with three of them in…
DetailsAs the hundreds of players race around the world in hunt of Olympic qualification, players from Australia have taken it upon themselves to chase the dream. Last week, Australia’s Louisa Ma and Anthony Joe travelled to Baku to compete in a BWF International Challenge event, the Azerbaijan International 2019. In the absence of a coach,…
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