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Badminton Facts

Badminton is a sport played with racquets and a shuttle (or shuttlecock), which is a feathered or plastic
projectile. It is played by either two opposing players or teams of two opposing players on a court
divided by a net. Badminton's history can be traced to British India in the 1800s, created by British
military while stationed there. The International Badminton Federation (now known as the Badminton
World Federation) was established in 1934, and today it is responsible for governing international
badminton and for globally developing the sport. Traditionally Denmark has dominated the sport in
Europe, while worldwide, Asian players dominate, with both Asian women and men being consistently
top competitors worldwide.

ALL ABOUT BADMINTON

THE HISTORY AND RULES OF THE GAME OF BADMINTON

The name Badminton comes from Badminton House – home of the Duke of Beaufort in the English
county of Gloucestershire. The ancestral estate is now better known for hunting and horse trials, it is
credited as the formal birthplace of the racquet sport. But badminton’s roots date back 1000’s of years.

Sports played with racquets and a shuttlecock most likely developed in ancient Greece around two
thousand years ago but are also mentioned in China and India. In England a children’s game known as
“battledore and shuttlecock” in which players used a paddle – a battledore – to keep a small feathered
cork – a shuttlecock – in the air as long as possible – was popular from medieval times.

In the seventeenth century, Battledore or Jeu de Volant was an upper class sport in many European
countries. Versions of the game had been played for centuries by children in the Far East, and were
adapted by British Army officers stationed in Pune (or Poona), India in the 1860s.

They added a net and the game became a competitive sport called “poona”, with formal rules in 1867.
In 1873 the game made its way back to England and gained its current title after guests at a Badminton
House lawn party held by the Duke of Beaufort introduced it to their friends as “the Badminton game”.

It was credit to its popularity that in 1877 the first set of written rules were formalized by the Bath
Badminton Club. A national organizing body was formed sixteen years later with the setting up of the
Badminton Federation of England, which in 1899 held the first All England Championships.

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