As part of World Badminton Day festivities, BWF took AirBadminton to the city of Hamburg, to celebrate the inaugural occasion with an AirBadminton Urban Series test event.<\/p>\n
Competing in Germany\u2019s north coast city as part of the Active City Arena Festival on 4-5 July 2022, national badminton teams from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany participated in the World Badminton Day event with the sea as a backdrop, and sand for surface.<\/p>\n
The two-day competition comprised of a mixed team event where the winner of a tie is the team reaching 100 points first over five games. Each tie consists of five matches \u2013 one women\u2019s doubles, one men\u2019s doubles, one mixed doubles, and two triples.<\/p>\n
And finally, a mixed doubles event is the best of five games, with the first to eleven points.<\/p>\n
Team Netherlands emerged victorious in the mixed team event. Finn Achthoven, 30, and Andy Buijk, 32, were extremely happy about their team\u2019s achievement.[vc_single_image image=”10373″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\u201cIt\u2019s been great playing AirBadminton here in Hamburg and were are very happy to be the winners at the end of the day.\u00a0 The wind was challenging at some points during the game, but we managed to adapt and use it to our advantage, and we believe that was the key to winning the final.\u00a0 We look forward to competing in upcoming AirBadminton events as this is a lot of fun and an exciting way to play our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AirBadminton Urban Series in Hamburg presented a unique opportunity to position AirBadminton as a young, innovative and urban sport, and the BWF is positive the event will inspire spectators and participants to look for opportunities to play AirBadminton beyond their experience in Hamburg.<\/p>\n
The Hamburg event was open to the public.\u00a0 One spectator, Gisbert Benecke, remarked how much they enjoyed the sport.[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”10376,10374,10375,10377,10379″][vc_column_text]\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like this before, playing badminton outdoors in a competitive form on the sand.\u00a0 It is pretty spectacular in terms of athleticism, the diving, the movements, and the easier rally situations due to the flight of the AirShuttle.\u201d<\/p>\n
AirBadminton takes an approach different from what most badminton fans might expect.\u00a0 The modified rules emphasise speed and outdoor dynamics transform the game into an entertaining spectacle for players and audiences.<\/p>\n
Want to give AirBadminton a go yourself?\u00a0 Find out everything you need to know in our\u00a0AirBadminton <\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>video, and on\u00a0www.airbadminton.sport<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n4rLpGLUOTs&list=PLYqPBxMmvqpKqdGXo4QVXA1llXg-EOWxH” align=”center”][vc_column_text]The next stop on the AirBadminton Urban Series tour will be, Utrecht, in the Netherlands in September.\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of World Badminton Day festivities, BWF took AirBadminton to the city of Hamburg, to celebrate the inaugural occasion with an AirBadminton Urban Series test event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2630,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}