First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

After attending Badminton School, a girls ' independent school in Bristol, followed by the Holland Park School, a state comprehensive school in London ( she had failed the Eleven Plus examination ), she won a scholarship to read history at St Anne's College, Oxford, despite gaining only one A-level.

The Badminton World Federation had charged the four pairs with “ not using one ’ s best efforts to win a match ” and “ conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport .”

In 2010 Joppien retired from professional Badminton because he had recurrent back problems.

In January 2007, it was renamed the Badminton Theater after it had been remodeled.

The Federaçao de Badminton de Timor-Leste had joined the International Badminton Federation ( IBF ) in April 2003.

Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War.

The 3300-3455 series had previously contained locomotives of Duke, Badminton, Atbara, City and a number of Bulldog class locomotives.

The first Badminton had 22 horses from Britain and Ireland start, and was won by Golden Willow.

By 1988, when he finished his schooling, Gopichand had made a mark for himself in the Badminton circuit.

In 1946, he had recovered sufficiently to resume teaching ( at Badminton School ) and to undertake musical activities.

Badminton had its debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 5 Olympiads.

Previously, American riders trained in England when they were preparing for international competition, as the country had the only two annual CCI **** at that time: Badminton and Burghley.

The duo had a terrific success together, completing Badminton several times, receiving the silver medal at the 1990 FEI World Equestrian Games in Stockholm representing the British Team, and competing in the Barcelona Olympics.

Although it appears clear that Badminton House, Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke of Beaufort, has given its name to the sports, it is unclear when and why the name was adopted.

The International Badminton Federation ( IBF ) ( now known as Badminton World Federation ) was established in 1934 with Canada, Denmark, England, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales as its founding members.

Every Hall has its own Mess, Canteen, Basketball Court, Badminton Court, TT tables, Reading room ( for newspapers, magazines etc.

Although Dawson College offers a wide variety of sports to its student body, the national governing body of college athletics, the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association ( CCAA ) only sanctions five sports nationally ( AAA ), those sports are: Basketball, Soccer, Golf, Badminton, and Cross Country Running.

Having linked its General Studies classes with Badminton School since 1972, it admitted girls to the Sixth Form in 1987 and is now fully coeducational.

After the last AIAW competition, collegiate badminton assumed the authority of its own national tournament committee in conjunction with the United States Badminton Association.

* Badminton, Gloucestershire, a village in England giving its name to

Twyford also has a tennis club, a bowls club with its own green and claims to have the oldest Badminton club in the country.

While the campus has separate sports fields for Football, Cricket, Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Badminton, most of the hostels has its own table tennis and badminton court.

Badminton is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England famous for its horse trials, which take place in early May each year in the grounds of the Duke of Beaufort's residence, Badminton House.

Badminton House also gives its name to the sport badminton.

International Student Badminton Tournaments depend on the Swiss ladder system to ensure its players get as many challenging matches as possible over the course of the badminton tournament.

He was also the founder of Badminton Association of Indonesia ( PBSI ) as well as its chairman for 22 years ( 1952 – 1963 and 1967 – 1981 ).

Badminton New Zealand is the badminton organisation in New Zealand which was established in 1927 under the stewardship of Archdeacon Ralph Creed Meredith of Whanganui, one of its first champions.

Beaufort conceived and planned the Badminton Library series of sporting books, the publication of which began in 1885 with a volume on Hunting, and acted as its overseeing editor.

On the other hand, giving the episode a positive review, Jennifer Malkowski of DVD Verdict gave the episode a B, praising the " Badminton and its many double entendres " as the episode's " highlight.

Gopichand made his debut into International Badminton in 1991 when he was selected to play against Malaysia.

Winter Sports: Ice Hockey, Swimming, Badminton, Volleyball, Alpine Skiing, Alpine Snow Boarding, Nordic Skiing, Curling, Wrestling ( 2010 / 2011 debut )

In first 2 years from 2009 to 2010, as indicated in book " Chinese JJJ Rules & judgement ", 5 formal events included in Chinese JJJ just similar as in Tennis games: Men's & Women's Single, Men's & Women's Double, Mixed Double. Then in Oct. of 2011, Team Game Rules was published on official website www. 100helps. cn by Chinese JJJ Association ( CJA ), having 3 players on each side, and longer court as Badminton Court's Outside Bottom Line.

It was found on the official Danish Badmintion Union's website aka Danmarks Badminton Forbund ( DBF ).

* Ball Badminton Federation of India official website

He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships.

In 2005 he won the bronze medal at the Badminton Asia Championships.

He won the gold medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships.

Badminton is the only sport in which Malaysia have ever won an Olympic medal, but despite the fact they entered a top-ranked doubles team ( Choong and Lee ), and two top ten singles players, Wong Choong Hann and Lee Chong Wei, they were unable to add to their medal total.

She won the silver medal at the 1998 European Badminton Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the bronze medal at the 2000 European Badminton Championships in Glasgow.

Paaske won the gold medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Jonas Rasmussen.

Zuyev got the silver medal in the men's doubles with Andrei Antropov at The 14th European Badminton Championships in Den Bosch, Netherlands, 10 – 17 April 1994.

He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Erwin Kehlhoffner.

Seen here at Badminton Horse Trials | Badminton in 2007, the Holsteiner Marius and his rider Hinrich Romeike went on to win the gold medal in eventing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

* Phil Collins, Badminton Player ( silver medal 1988 Olympics )

During his career, Frost won almost every available top level championship, except the World Badminton Championships where he scored a silver medal twice ( 1985 and 1987 ).

Her best result was a bronze medal in Mixed doubles ( together with partner Wouter Claes ) during the 2010 European Badminton Championships.