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The origins of the game of badminton date back at least 2,000 years to the game of battledore and shuttlecock played in ancient Greece, China, and India.

Badminton in Portugal is an amateur sport and still evolving. There are two types of badminton competitions: federated and school competition.

The most identical, most popular and most developed in Portugal is tennis.

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When did badminton appear in Portugal...

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When did badminton appear in Portugal...

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The introduction of badminton in Portugal happened in 1953 with Henrique Pinto, in that year the tournament was organized by a gym «Triângulo Vermelho».

The Portuguese badminton federation was founded the following year in July 1954, at its headquarters in Caldas da Rainha.

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In the federated competition there is soon the national championship but only the winners of the zonal phase pass to the end of this championship.

The badminton competitions are disputed by the best classified of each country.

Portugal ranks 58th in the world ranking with only 680 points.

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In the individual school sport competition, a county tournament begins where the best ones go to a district competition, then regional and then national.

In the competition of teams is identical, only in a change that later the best team of the national will compete internationally a sports school tournament.