The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

The Thomas, Uber, and Sudirman Cups, the Olympics, and the BWF World ( and World Junior Championships ), are all categorized as level one tournaments.

* International Badminton Federation former name of Badminton World Federation ( BWF ), an international governing body for badminton

Kota Kinabalu has played host to a number of national sporting events such as the 2002 Sukma Games, international tournaments such as the 1994 Karate World Championships and the 2008 BWF Super Series Masters Finals badminton tournament.

Matsuda played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Tadashi Ohtsuka, and were defeated in the third round by the eventual champions Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, of Indonesia, 22-20, 21-19.

Ohtsuka played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Keita Masuda, and were defeated in the third round by the eventual champions Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, of Indonesia, 22-20, 21-19.

Zhang and Gao were silver medalists behind Indonesia's Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir at the 2007 BWF World Championships in Kuala Lumpur.

Associated with Ma Jin, Zheng won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2010 BWF World championships.

However, 2009 proved to be her most successful year as Zhao won both the prestigious All-England and BWF World Championships in women's doubles with Zhang Yawen.

A member of China's perennial world champion Uber Cup teams, in the biggest events for individual players ( such as the BWF World Championships, the All-England Championships, and the Olympic Games ) Wei and her partners have usually been overshadowed by China's two dominant women's doubles pairs, Gao Ling and Huang Sui, and Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen.

Wei has medaled four times at the BWF World Championships without " striking gold ".

Gao has earned four gold medals ( among nine medals in total ) at the BWF World Championships, three of them in women's doubles with Huang Sui ( 2001, 2003, and 2006 ) and one of them in mixed doubles with Zhang Jun ( 2001 ).

One or the other pair has captured all of the BWF World Championships held since 2000, with Zhang and Yang winning in both 2005 and 2007 by defeating Gao and Huang in the finals.

They bested the same team in winning both the 2005 and 2007 BWF World Championships.

They have been one of the world's two or three leading teams, winning the World Championships in 2005 and 2007, and earning silver medals at the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 BWF World Championships.

* BWF Profile: Zhang Jun-Badminton World Federation

* BWF World Championships ( 2001 and 2003 )

* BWF World Junior Championships ( 2002 and 2004 )

The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation ( BWF ), the sport's global governing body.

For many they trump major tournaments for individual competitors such as the venerable All-England Championships, the BWF World Championships, and even the badminton competitions at the Olympic Games.

* BWF World Championships ( a. k. a. World Badminton Championships ), a tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation

Won the woman's championship at the 2009 BWF World Championships.

The 2007 BWF World Championships is the 16th tournament of BWF World Championships ( World Badminton Championships ).

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

Each of those segments is a regular Wave / BWF file, but players that are aware of the continue / link chunk will treat all segments as one single, long piece of audio when opening the first segment ". wav ".

Although Joint Promotions considered the title vacant and held a tournament for a new champion ( won by Billy Joyce ), Assirati continued to claim it within the BWF.

Susanti was inducted into the International Badminton Federation ( IBF, currently BWF ) Hall of Fame in May 2004, and received the Herbert Scheele Trophy in 2002.

Since the only difference between a BWF and a " normal " WAV is the extended information in the file header ( Bext-Chunk, Coding-History, etc ...), a BWF does not require a special player for playback.

At the start of 2007, the BWF introduced a new tournament structure for the highest level tournaments aside from those in level one: the BWF Super Series.

Top players can collect the world ranking points and enable them to play in the BWF Super Series open tournaments.

There is no prize money in Sudirman Cup ; players play for their respective countries and to earn BWF world ranking points and national prestige.

In the early 1980s the IBF ( BWF ) revamped the formats of both Thomas Cup and the women's world team championship, the Uber Cup.

Most recently in the YONEX BWF World Championship 2010, she caused an upset over the world number one ranking player, Wang Yihan.

Like the founding of the BWF, that initiative followed the controversial General Synod of 2005 ( in which the denomination in effect endorsed the efforts of same-sex couples to marry ) and seeks to keep churches from leaving the denomination.

Having promoted shows in the 1950s with himself in the main event as masked heel Doctor Death, Lincoln led a consortium of independent promoters under the British Wrestling Federation ( BWF ) whose name was used for a rival championship, built around Heavyweight champion Bert Assirati who split away from Joint Promotions in 1958 while still champion.

The BWF announced on 4 September 2010 that a BWF Doping Hearing conducted in Copenhagen on Monday 23 August has banned Zhou Mi for 2 years from participation in badminton, following an Adverse Analytical Finding.

BWF files are archived with a digitally sealed ' header ' comprising metadata exported from the Paradisec catalog.

This sealed header also acts as a security device and prevents the archived BWF from any unauthorised edits, thus preserving the audio signal for posterity.

Xie Xingfang (; Yale Romanization: Je6 Hang6 Fong1 ; born January 8, 1981, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ) is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China who has twice won women's singles at the BWF World Championships.

It is also standard practice to produce smaller, more easily transported mp3 copies of each BWF, for the purpose of access.