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Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2016 Rio Olympics: five events, 11–20 August, Riocentro Pavilhão 4, 172 athletes from 46 NOCs. Chen Long and Carolina Marín won singles gold; China took only two of five golds after sweeping London 2012.
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held 24 July to 2 August 2021 at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, across five events. China led with two golds; no BWF top-ranked player or pair won gold, and Axelsen took men's singles.
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
Men's singles badminton at Tokyo 2020 (24 July–2 August 2021, Musashino Forest Sport Plaza): Viktor Axelsen beat defending champion Chen Long 21-15, 21-12 for gold; Anthony Ginting took bronze; world number one Kento Momota exited early.
Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics: five-event Paris 2024 tournament, 27 July to 5 August 2024 at Porte de la Chapelle Arena; 173 athletes, China led with 2 gold and 3 silver, Asians won 14 of 15 medals.
Badminton at the Summer Olympics
Badminton at the Summer Olympics: medal sport since Barcelona 1992 (demonstration 1972, exhibition 1988), five events including mixed doubles since 1996, governed by the BWF and dominated by China, Indonesia, and South Korea.
Badminton at the Summer Paralympics
Badminton at the Summer Paralympics (Para badminton), BWF-governed racket sport, debuted at Tokyo 2020 with six classes WH1-WH2, SL3-SL4, SU5, SH6; 14 events, China led with 5 golds; 16 events at Paris 2024 and LA28.
Badminton Europe
Badminton Europe Confederation (BEC), formerly the European Badminton Union, is the BWF continental governing body for European badminton, founded 24 September 1967 in Frankfurt am Main by 11 members, now 52, based in Denmark.
Badminton in India
Badminton in India: governed by the Badminton Association of India (BAI, founded 1934); sport traces roots to poona; India won its first Thomas Cup in 2022, hosts the India Open Super 750, and adopts 3x15 scoring from July 2026.
Badminton Oceania
Badminton Oceania (BOC), formerly Oceania Badminton Confederation, is the BWF continental governing body for badminton in Oceania, formed 21 May 1987 by Australia and New Zealand, with 18 member associations and its head office in Auckland.
Badminton players from Jiangsu
Badminton players from Jiangsu, China, produced by the Nanjing Sport Institute provincial team founded 1971: Sun Zhi'an, Yang Yang, Zhao Jianhua, Ge Fei, Gu Jun, Zhang Jun, Cai Yun, Shi Yuqi, He Bingjiao, Lu Guangzu.
Badminton players of the Americas, Africa and Oceania
Badminton players of the Americas, Africa and Oceania are international competitors from these three regions. Africa features leaders like Anuoluwapo Opeyori, and Oceania lists 26 Australian and 17 New Zealand players.
Badminton World Federation
Badminton World Federation (BWF), formerly International Badminton Federation (IBF), founded 5 July 1934 in London, renamed 2006; badminton's international governing body, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, 204 member associations, weighted voting, president Patama Leeswadtrakul.
Ball badminton
Ball badminton (बॉल बैडमिंटन) is an Indian racquet sport from Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, played since 1856 with a yellow woolen ball on a 12 x 24 m court, five a side, governed by the BBFI (formed 1954).
Barbora Krejčíková
Barbora Krejčíková (Czech tennis player, born 1995 in Brno): two Grand Slam singles titles (Roland Garros 2021, Wimbledon 2024), seven women's doubles majors with Katerina Siniakova, three Australian Open mixed doubles titles, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic doubles gold.
Barbora Strýcová
Barbora Strýcová (Strycova), Czech tennis player, former WTA doubles World No. 1 with 32 doubles titles, two-time Wimbledon doubles champion with Hsieh Su-wei (2019, 2023), 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, retired 2023, now Czech Billie Jean King Cup captain.
Barry Hearn
Barry Hearn OBE is an English sports promoter and founder of Matchroom Sport (1982), who as PDC and World Snooker chairman commercialized darts and snooker, chaired Leyton Orient, and received an OBE for services to sport.
Basque pelota
Basque pelota (pelota vasca, euskal pilota) is a family of Basque wall-ball games played bare-handed, with bats, rackets, or the wicker chistera basket; the basket form is jai alai. Olympic demonstration sport 1924, 1968, 1992; UNESCO heritage 2021.
Battle of the Sexes (tennis)
Battle of the Sexes (tennis): 1973 exhibition at the Houston Astrodome where 29-year-old Billie Jean King beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 for $100,000, watched by about 90 million viewers worldwide.
BDO World Darts Championship
BDO World Darts Championship: the British Darts Organisation's world title, first held 1978, staged at the Lakeside Country Club from 1986, broadcast by the BBC until 2016, and ended by the BDO's September 2020 collapse, succeeded by the WDF World Championship.
Beach tennis
Beach tennis, also called matkot-adjacent beach racket sport, is a sand-court doubles game with stringless paddles, a Stage 2 orange ball, a 1.7 m net, and no bounce, governed by the ITF (World Tennis) and the IFBT since its 1978 Ravenna origins.
Beals Wright
Beals Coleman Wright (1879-1961), American left-handed tennis player; first American Olympic tennis champion with 1904 singles and doubles golds, 1905 U.S. champion, Wimbledon All-Comers finalist 1910, Hall of Fame 1956.
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian left-handed tennis player born 1996 in São Paulo; first Brazilian woman in the WTA top 10, 2023 Roland Garros semifinalist, four WTA singles titles, 2022 Nottingham and Birmingham champion.
Beau Greaves
Beau Greaves, 'Beau 'n' Arrow', is an English darts player from Doncaster, a three-time WDF women's world champion and the first woman to win a PDC ranking title.
Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player born 1997 in Flawil; Olympic singles gold medalist Tokyo 2020, former world No. 4, ten WTA singles titles, 2019 US Open semifinalist, and 2025 comeback after maternity leave.
Ben Crenshaw
Ben Crenshaw (born 1952, Austin, Texas), nicknamed Gentle Ben, American golfer; two-time Masters champion (1984, 1995), 19 PGA TOUR wins, 1999 Ryder Cup captain, and Coore & Crenshaw golf course designer.
Ben Griffin (golfer)
Ben Griffin (born 1996, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American PGA Tour golfer who won three times in 2025, including the Charles Schwab Challenge, and debuted for Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Ben Hebert
Ben Hebert (born 1983, Regina) is a Canadian curling lead, three-time Olympian and two-time gold medallist (Vancouver 2010 with Kevin Martin, Milano Cortina 2026 with Brad Jacobs), with four Brier and two world titles.
Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan (1912–1997), American professional golfer; won 63 PGA Tour events and nine majors, completed the career Grand Slam, and in 1953 won the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open in one year after a near-fatal 1949 bus crash.
Ben Shelton
Ben Shelton (born 2002, Atlanta) is an American left-handed tennis player, 2022 NCAA singles champion for Florida, son of coach Bryan Shelton; career-high No. 4, two-time Canadian Masters 1000 champion, 2026 US Open finalist.
Ben Shelton career statistics
The Ben Shelton career statistics cover the American tennis player's rise to No. 4 in ATP singles, two Masters 1000 titles, and his first major final at the 2026 US Open.