Badminton in China by jenny_wu https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50 en-us 2014-08-23 12:37:21 UTC 2023-02-21 12:18:10 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d20uo2axdbh83k.cloudfront.net/20140823/e330c9fca8621ad439770c1e2e7de604.jpg Badminton in China mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043685 2014-08-23 12:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043685 Zhang Ning mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043696 Zhang Ning is one of China's best female badminton players. She retired after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and is the only player in the world to win consectutive Olympic gold medals in singles matches.

]]> 2014-08-23 12:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043696 Lin Dan mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043706 Lin Dan is another of China's best badminton players. He is currently ranked 18th in the world for men's singles, and has won 9 top tier international championships between 2002 and 2004.

]]> 2014-08-23 12:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32043706 Fact #1 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050267 China has so far won a total of 38 medals from the many touranments. Some include: the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, the Sudirman Cup, etc.

Below: China's badminton coach, Li Yongbo proudly displaying all 5 gold medals won at the London 2012 games.

]]> 2014-08-24 01:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050267 Fact #2 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050277 About 1 in 1,300 people in China play badminton. That's about 100 million people in China that play badminton, out of its population of 1.3 billion.

]]> 2014-08-24 01:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050277 Fact #3 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050715 China is currently ranked number one in the world team rankings of badminton, and has continued to do so for the past few decades.

]]> 2014-08-24 02:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050715 Bibliography mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050807 http://www.bwfbadminton.org/page.aspx?id=18740

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http://www.softschools.com/facts/sports/badminton_facts/788/]]> 2014-08-24 02:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050807 Fact #4 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050891 The Chinese originally played a version of badminton called Jian Zi. In this instance however, they did not use racquets, they used their feet.

]]> 2014-08-24 02:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050891 Fact #5 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050990 China, with Indonesia, has won more than 70% of the Badminton World Federation (BWF; originally the International Badminton Federation games).

]]> 2014-08-24 03:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32050990 The shuttlecock used in Jianzi mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32051002 2014-08-24 03:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32051002 Fact #8 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32055026 The world's fastest shuttlecock smash speed, an astounding 332km/h(206mph), was set by China's mens doubles star, Fu Haifeng, in the 2005 Sudirman Cup in Beijing.

]]> 2014-08-24 09:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32055026 Fact #7 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32055102 The longest match ever held was 124 minutes, between Denmark's Peter Rasmussen and China's Sun Jun.

]]> 2014-08-24 09:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32055102 Fact #6 mapleleafgirl https://padlet.com/mapleleafgirl/im8rk0th1t50/wish/32055277 China was one of the three countries to have ever won the Thomas Cup, the other countries being Malaysia and Indonesia.

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