BADMINTON
Badminton is the fastest racket sport in the world.
It became an official Olympic sport in Barcelona 1992. The competition in Tokyo 2020 will consist of men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
A match consists of best-of-three games, with the first player or pair to reach 21 points winning the game. If the score is 20-all, the side that gains a two-point lead wins that game. If the difference is less than two, the game continues until the two-point difference is achieved. If the score gets to 29-all, the side that reaches 30 first wins the game.
Sonya McGinn represented Team Ireland in Sydney 200 whilst Scott Evans and Chloe Magee are 3 time Olympics having competed in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016
The National Governing body for Badminton is Badminton Ireland and the International federation is the Badminton World Federation where you can find more information
National Federation: Badminton Ireland
International Federation: Badminton World Federation
BADMINTON NEWS
Nhat Nguyen and Rachael Darragh Officially Selected to Compete in Badminton in Paris 2024
Nhat Nguyen and Rachael Darragh have been officially selected to represent Team Ireland in badminton at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. Dubliner, Nguyen, will be competing in his second Games, having made his debut at the Tokyo Olympics. From Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Darragh will be making her first Olympic appearance. The Badminton events [...]
A RALLYING FORCE IN RACQUET SPORTS | Chloe Magee
Irish badminton has a relatively short but rich Olympic history and women have played a really seminal role in it. Sonia McGinn, a 26-year-old from Howth, was the first player to ever qualify when she competed in Sydney 2000 and she also had a female coach (Mary Dinan). Then came Chloe Magee who was only [...]
Dan Magee – The Team Behind The Team | Badminton
JUST HOW did a Presbyterian church built over 200 years ago in a small Donegal town become such a hotbed for Irish badminton? Raphoe only has a population of a couple of thousand yet its Badminton Club has produced Irish Olympians and multiple European medals. The local badminton club now primarily trains on the four [...]
Badminton Pair Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds Looking To Boost Olympic Qualificaiton
Irish Badminton duo Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds are looking to boost their own Olympic Qualification hopes at the World Championships in Denmark this week 🏸 Having watched @chloenmagee and @scott_evans1 compete in Beijing, it’s given the pair the same dream and motivation to chase that Olympic qualification ☘️ The pair have used the Team Ireland Make a Difference [...]
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Rachael Darragh
BIOGRAPHY A niece of three-time Olympian Chloe Magee, Rachael moved to Badminton Ireland’s High Performance centre at 17 and actually flew to her first European Games in Baku in 2015 the day after completing her Leaving Cert. During the previous Olympic cycle Rachael was juggling doubles & singles but since concentrating on the latter since [...]
Nhat Nguyen
BIOGRAPHY Nhat was born in Vietnam and moved to Ireland, initially to Belturbet, when he was six. He won the European U17 title when he was 15, the same year as his first Irish senior title. He was a European junior bronze medallist in 2018 when he also made the quarter-finals of World Juniors and [...]