Today I am going to tell you about some interesting facts about badminton. The shortest badminton match lasted for six minutes. It was played between Ra Kyung - min (South Korea) and Julia Mann (England). However, the longest badminton lasted for 124 minutes! ( 2hrs and 4 minutes) Peter Rassmusen (Denmark) Sun Jun (China) took ages to battle to see who would win! If you smash the shuttlecock, its speed goes as fast as 180mph! The intensity of a tennis match is 9% while the intensity of a badminton match is 48%. The weight of shuttlecock is between 4.74 and 5.50 grams, made up of feathers from the left wing of the goose, not from the plastic. Badminton was first played as a sport in the Olympics in 1992. More than 1.1 billion watched its Olympic debut on television. You are not allowed touch the net with your racquet. Badminton was originally not called badminton. It went by the name Shuttlecock and Battledore. It was eventually named badminton after the Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England. Interestingly, only three countries have ever won the Thomas Cup since the competition was established in 1848. The three countries include China, Indonesia and Malaysia. The worlds largest shuttlecock is 18 feet and weighs 2500 kilograms.
While most players choose synthetic strings, some still use gut made from the dried stomach lining of animals such as cows or cats. The Chinese originally played a version of badminton called Ti Zian Ji. They didn't use racquets though, they used their feet!
worlds largest shuttlecock video
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