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Badminton World Federation

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Badminton World Federation

Abbreviation	BWF
Formation	1934
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Membership	169 member associations
President	Kang Young-Joong
Website	www.bwfbadminton.org

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton. Founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations (Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales), the BWF has since expanded to 169 member nations around the world. On September 24, 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid, it was decided to adopt the new name Badminton World Federation (BWF).^[1]
Its head office was located in Cheltenham, UK since its founding, but on October 1, 2005, was relocated to Kuala Lumpur. Its current president is Kang Young-Joong.^[2]

Continental and National Federations

See Category:National Members of the Badminton World Federation

Map of the World with five confederations

The BWF works in cooperation with regional governing bodies to promote and develop the sport of badminton around the world, they are:^[3]

Region		Confederation	Members
	Asia	Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC)	40
	Europe	Badminton Europe (BE)	51
	Americas	Badminton Pan Am (BPA)	31
	Africa	Badminton Confederation of Africa (BCA)	36
	Oceania	Badminton Oceania (BO)	11
Total			169

Presidents

Below is the list of presidents since 1934:^[4]

No.	Years	Name
1	1934–1955	George Alan Thomas
2	1955–1957	John Plunkett-Dillon
3	1957–1959	Brigadier Bruce Hay
4	1959–1961	ACJ van Vossen
5	1961–1963	John McCallum
6	1963–1965	Nils Peder Kristensen
7	1965–1969	David Bloomer
8	1969–1971	Humphrey Chilton
9	1971–1974	Ferry Sonneville
10	1974–1976	Stuart Wyatt
11	1976–1981	Stellan Mohlin
12	1981–1984	Craig Reedie
13	1984–1986	Poul-Erik Nielsen
14	1986–1990	Ian Palmer
15	1990–1993	Arthur Jones
16	1993–2001	Lu Shengrong
17	2001–2005	Korn Dabbaransi
18	2005–	Kang Young-Joong

Tournaments

International

The BWF regularly organizes six major international badminton events:

Olympic Games in cooperation with International Olympic Committee
World Championships
World Junior Championships
Thomas Cup
Uber Cup
Sudirman Cup

Two events are no longer held regularly:

World Cup was suspended since 1997. However, the BWF revived the event in 2005 (with China as host) but only as an invitational tournament. China swept gold in all 5 categories.
World Grand Prix has been on hiatus since 2000.

Open events

BWF also sanctions the open events into seven categories with different World Ranking points awarded, as order they are:

Super Series Premier
Super Series
Grand Prix Gold
Grand Prix
International Challenge
International Series
Future Series

Awards

The BWF bestows special honours onto players, umpires, sponsors and other individuals for their achievement in badminton or for their contributions to badminton.^[5]

Lifetime Achievement
Hall of Fame
Herbert Scheele Trophy
Distinguished Service
Meritorius Service
Certificate of Commendation
Eddy Choong Player of the Year (hiatus since 2008)
Best Male and Female Player of the Year
Eddie Choong Most Promising Player of the Year
Women in Badminton

Logo

The new logo of the organization was unveiled in June 2007 and officially launched at the 2007 Sudirman Cup in Glasgow, Scotland. It was designed by Indonesian Aboeb Luthfy as part of the three months contest launched by the federation.^[6] BWF launched new logo during 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup.^[7]