Badminton’s Team GB stars and some of Europe’s finest are preparing for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at a three-day training camp at Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena. GB stars including world number 7 pair Chris and Gabby Adcock, Rajiv Ouseph and world number 15 Kirsty Gilmour are putting the final touches to their preparations before they
Catch all the world’s best players when they return to Birmingham for the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2017 next March. Tickets for the 107th Championships go on general sale today (15 July) giving fans the opportunity to watch the Olympic stars from Rio as well as the next generation of champions compete for
England’s Chloe Birch and Sarah Walker won their first title together after landing the Slovenia International women’s doubles title on Sunday. Birch and Walker, the fourth seeds, beat England’s Jess Pugh and Cheryl Seinen of the Netherlands 22-20. 21-19. The English pairing, who reached the Portuguese International final in March, beat Ukranian top seeds Natalya
For a second year running it was a case of what could have been for Loughborough Sport as they finished runners-up in the National Badminton League Final, losing out to Birmingham Lions 3-1 in an unbelievably close final. After beating last year’s champions Team Derby 3-2 in the semi-finals and having gone unbeaten in the
The AJ Bell National Badminton League (NBL) reaches a thrilling finale at the Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham on Sunday. The conclusion to the AJ Bell NBL’s second season will see back-to-back Play-Offs and a Championship Final as Team Derby seek to defend their title in an all day badminton extravaganza. Finals Day will once again bring
Judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz, swimmer Anna Hopkin, badminton player Alex Lane and slider David Swift are the latest winners of the Team Bath athlete of the month awards. The awards, which are supported by REVO Eyewear and Ellis & Killpartrick, once again showcased the outstanding calibre of sporting talent at the University of Bath. Judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, a Sport Performance student
Top seeds Heather Olver and Lauren Smith raced to the Orleans International 2016 women’s doubles title in France on Sunday as England’s national champions picked up more valuable qualification points in the Race to Rio standings. Olver and Smith overcame home hopes Delphine Delrue and Lea Palermo, the unseeded French pair who had taken out
Chloe Birch makes it 10 from 10 as Loughborough Sport beat MK Badminton. The final match night of the regular AJ Bell National Badminton League season saw Loughborough Sport break not one but two records as they secured a 4-1 victory. Playing away at Milton Keynes, Chloe Birch won her tenth consecutive match, whilst the
On her 21st birthday, Nozomi Okuhara became Japan’s first singles’ winner since 1977 after an extraordinary women’s singles final against Wang Shixian of China. Okuhara prevailed 21-11, 16-21, 21-19 in a 99-minute marathon, the second longest match of the tournament, aided by a conduct point against Wang late in the decider for time-wasting. Okuhara said:
Chris and Gabby Adcock fell to an agonising defeat at the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships on Saturday as Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark advanced to Sunday’s mixed doubles final. In front of a sell out Barclaycard Arena, the married couple and world number seven pair looked set to take the
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