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Carolina Marín, a badminton player David Palmer and Tom Richards, two squash players Uładzimir Samsonaŭ, a table tennis player Justine Henin, a tennis player Sports that use a netted racket. Badminton; Ball badminton; Battledore and shuttlecock; Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") Frontenis; Qianball; Racketlon (a series of other racket ...
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport. Two decades later the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women. Four medals were awarded in each event, including ...
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are ...
Fu Haifeng, Gao Ling, Ge Fei, Gu Jun, Kim Dong-moon, Lin Dan, Zhang Jun, Zhang Nan, Zhang Ning and Zhao Yunlei are the all-time leaders for the most gold medal wins, with two. [4] In the 1992 Summer Olympics, future married couple Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma won Indonesia their first ever Olympic gold medals since their first Olympic ...
Each group played a round-robin. The top two players in each group advanced to the knockout rounds. The knockout stage was a four-round single elimination tournament. Matches were played best-of-three games. Each game was played to 21, except that a player must win by 2 unless the score reaches 30–29. Schedule
Saina Nehwal ( pronunciation ⓘ; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only ...
Carolina Marín. Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, and eight-time European Champion. She has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in women's singles by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for a total of 66 weeks, and is the current world No. 3.
Anders Antonsen (born 27 April 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He is a three-time World Championships medalist, two-time European Champion, and former World's No. 2 in BWF rankings for the men's singles discipline. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys singles event, and at the same year was awarded the ...