Badminton Canada is the national

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for the

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badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

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. The association is composed of 13 member associations representing all of the

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History

The association was founded as Canadian Badminton Association in 1921 by representatives from badminton clubs across Canada. The next year, the first ever national championships was held in

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. It changed its name to Badminton Canada in 1989.

Tournaments

Canada Open The Canada Open (french: Open du Canada) in badminton is an international open held in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northwar ...

, an open tournament part of

BWF Tour Super 100 The BWF World Tour is a Badminton World Federation#Grade 2, Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (me ...

. * Canadian International, discontinued since 2013. *

Canadian National Badminton Championships The Canadian National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the P ...

Hall of Fame

Builders

* Pal Chawla * Bert Fergus * Jack MacDonald *

Wayne Macdonnell Wayne Macdonnell (born June 28, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former Canadian badminton player. He was a dominant figure in Canadian badminton in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the men's singles events. He remained a top ranked badminto ...

* Jim Powell *

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Coaches

* John Gilbert *

Channarong Ratanaseangsuang Channarong Ratanaseangsuang (born 1939), also known as Ratana, is a former badminton player and coach who represented both Thailand and Canada in international competition. Career With a game marked by impressive mobility and consistency, during ...

* Abdul Shaikh

Officials

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Jean-Guy Poitras Jean-Guy Poitras is a Canadian badminton referee, originally from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, in northwest New Brunswick. He is a professor of physical education at the Edmundston Campus of the University of Moncton and was Dean there from 1996 to 20 ...

Players

Claire Backhouse-Sharpe Claire Backhouse-Sharpe ( Backhouse; born May 13, 1958) is a Canadian badminton player and coach. Between 1978 and 1994, she competed in five editions of the Commonwealth Games for Canada, winning a single gold medal and five silver medals. Backho ...

* Mike Butler *

Denyse Julien Denyse Julien (born July 22, 1960, in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) is a former badminton player from Canada noted for her versatility and longevity. Career Between 1981 and 2004 Julien won a record 31 Canadian National Championship events, thirteen i ...

Jamie Paulson Jamie Paulson (born April 26, 1948) is a Canadian former badminton player who won national and international titles from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. In 1970 he won the men's singles at the quadrennial 1970 British Commonwealth Games making ...

Marjory Shedd Marjory Shedd (March 17, 1926 – May 10, 2008) was a world-class Canadian badminton player who won numerous titles from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. Shedd won a total of 23 Canadian National Championships (6 in singles, 12 in women's doubl ...

* Jack Underhill

References

{{Sports governing bodies of Canada National members of the Badminton World Federation Badminton in Canada

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

1921 establishments in Canada