A Brief History of Badminton

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A Brief History of Badminton
A badminton like game was known in ancient Greece and Egypt - a game called battledore and shuttlecock - in which two players hit a feathered shuttlecock back and forth with tiny rackets. The game was called "Poona" in India during the 18th Century. In the 1860s it was adopted by British Army officers stationed in India. The officers took the game back to England, where it became a success at a party given by the Duke of Beaufort in 1873 at his estate called "Badminton" in Gloucestershire.
A brief history of Badminton

* On a world wide basis, badminton has a history of more than 2000 years. Originating from the ancient game of Battledore and
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By the 16th Century Battledore had evolved into a children's game and over the next century became popular with the upper classes in Europe. In mainland Europe it was known by its French name 'jeu de volant'.
1800s
By the mid 19th Century a game called 'poona' had developed in India that more closely resembled modern-day badminton.
British Army officers who were stationed in India began picking up the game, recording some basic rules and were responsible for bringing it back to England.
Around the same time the Duke of Beauford began introducing it to the noble and royal society at his estate in Gloucestershire, England.
This estate was called Badminton House.
It is suggested that here the idea of putting a string between the players was born, along with trying to hit the shuttlecock away from your opponent.
Within a few years the Bath Badminton Club had been formed and the rules as they are today began to be developed. And the game had a new name -Badminton!
Clubs began appearing all round the country over the next few years and in 1893 there was a meeting of 14 of the most prominent in Southsea in Hampshire.
Soon after that meeting, the first national badminton association was founded and the first set of rules were formalised.
As the sport went from the genteel affair that it had been to a more competitive one, the first tournaments
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