World Badminton Day<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/span>is an initiative by BWF to bring people and communities together to experience fun and inclusive badminton through a variety of engaging and innovative badminton events. The day marks the founding of the International Badminton Federation (now Badminton World Federation) on 5 July 1934. Organising and participating in a World Badminton Day event is open to all \u2013 whether they be National Badminton Federations, clubs, schools or general badminton fans \u2013 and can be on any scale.<\/p>\n[vc_single_image image=”9957″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
The events registered so far involve diverse interest groups, including people with disabilities, the elderly, women and children, assembling in a variety of spaces such as schools, stadiums, beaches, streets and parks.<\/p>\n
Among the more ambitious ones are the \u201ccome and try\u201d event in Kuala Lumpur and a competition in Singapore, each expected to involve 10,000 participants or more, and Badminton Australia\u2019s \u201cShuttle Smash Launch\u201d, involving the launch of new government-funded programmes in clubs for children aged between five and 12, with expected participation of 5,000 children.<\/p>\n
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Cities ranging from Caracas (Venezuela), General Villamil Playas (Ecuador), Maiduguri (Nigeria), Beira (Mozambique) and Gadag (India) are playing host to the celebrations, indicating the vast spread of interest in badminton. A free badminton lesson for vulnerable groups is slated to be held in Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia), aiming to enhance their self-esteem and involve them in national sport activity.<\/p>\n
Significantly, a number of these events involve Para badminton. A few AirBadminton events have been planned as well, including girls-only celebrations in Jakarta and Devon.<\/p>\n
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Over 40 events worldwide have been planned so far for the inaugural World Badminton Day celebrations on 5 July 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2630,"featured_media":9959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9955","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\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.bwfbadminton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}