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Badminton is a racket sport in which two players (singles) or two couples (doubles) face each other on opposite halves of a rectangular track divided by a net.
Unlike other racket sports, badminton is not played with a ball, but with a steering wheel.
Players must hit the wheel with their rackets so that it crosses the track above the net and falls into the opposing sector. The point ends when the steering wheel touches the ground, after exceeding the net.
Badminton is, since the Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992), an Olympic sport in five modalities: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the latter, the couple is composed of a man and a woman. This sport is heavily dominated by Asian athletes: China, Indonesia and South Korea got 28 gold medals out of 29.
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History.
The current badminton game arose in Asia, more specifically, in India, where it received the name of 'Poona' city located in the western Indian state of the Maharashtra and place where it was originally played. Some British army officers watched the game in India and took it to England in 1875. There, the Duke of Beaufort became interested in the game, and since it was practiced regularly at his Gloucestershire country estate, known as "Badminton House ", this name continued to be associated with the game.
The game was implanted in the United States in 1890 and was also introduced in Canada. The National Badminton Association of the United States was created in 1895. At that time the rules were unified. The first men's tournament in England was held in 1899, and the first for ladies in 1900. The Canadian Badminton Association was founded in 1931 and the American Badminton Association in 1936. The first American championships were held in 1937, in Chicago .
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