about badminton

Guinness World Record ---Fastest Badminton Smash 2013  (493km/h) by Tan Boon Heong 493km/h & LEE Chong Wei 456km/h .

=> Badminton is the world’s fastest racket sport. This game is played with  2 or 4 opposing players.

=> The popularity of Badminton spread USA in the 1930s and since then this game has been growing tremendously. 
->   Badminton have two name Shuttlecock and Battledore.
->   The game took its name from Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England home of the Duke of          Beaufort.
->   Badminton’s Olympic  in 1992 in Barcelona saw the first appearance .
->    A shuttle can leave the racket and smash around the court at a  speed of up to 500 km/hour.
->   The International Badminton Federation (IBF) was founded in 1934. More than 153 members are          part of the IBF.
->   IBF also known as BWF. "BWF- badminton world federation"
->   Badminton was known to USA in the 1890s but did not gain enough popularity.
->   The USA Badminton association was established in 1996.
 ->  The shortest Badminton match in  6 minutes.
 ->  A shuttlecock weighs between 4.73 and 5.55 grams. The best badminton shuttles are made from            the feathers of a goose. 15 feathers are used to make a shuttlecock. 
 ->   The biggest shuttlecock in the world is located in the lawns of the Kansas city museum. The                   shuttlecock is 48 times larger than the real shuttlecock, 18 feet tall and weighs 2500 kilo. 

->     The Thomas Cup has been won by only four countries- Malaysia, Indonesia ,japan  and china since its  inception in 1848. 
->   1st RANKING IN BWF-
      men's single- CHEN long
      women single- saina nehwal (india)