Badminton

GWANGJU – The team competition for the quarter-finals at the 12th World University Badminton Championship began yesterday morning, November 7th, 2012. In the Group A preliminaries, CHN easily made it to the quarter-finals, defeating RUS with a huge point difference especially in Women’s Single and Women’s Doubles. In the Group B preliminaries, JPN players won […]

GWANGJU – Yesterday, November 6th, 2012, the team competition took place in the Yeomju Gymnasium at the 12th World University Badminton Championship.   The home team KOR made a good fight against SRI in the Group C preliminaries. Especially in the first single and double matches, team KOR scored outstanding points and proved themselves as […]

GWANGJU – The opening ceremony of the 12th World University Badminton Championship (WUBC) kicked off at 2pm on November 6th. The FISU Family and officials from Korea University Sports Board, Badminton Korea Association and WUBC Organizing Committee, Gwangju citizens and athletes from 19 countries gathered together and celebrated the beginning of the Championship. The ceremony […]

GWANGJU – To ensure a smooth and successful hosting of the 2012 Gwangju World University Badminton Championship, a workshop recently took place in an OC meeting room. The workshop was held under the title, “A successful hosting of the 2012 WUBC” in the OC participated by more than 50 OC staff members including city authority […]

Mr. Roger Johansson, FISU Technical Chair for Badminton, inspecting the competition venues GWANGJU – Mr. Roger Johansson, FISU Technical Chair for Badminton, gave a positive thumbs-up to the 2012 Gwangju World University Badminton Championship preparations. Mr. Johansson recently visited Gwangju to check preparations for the upcoming 12th World University Badminton Championship, which will be held […]

GWANGJU – In the World University Badminton Championship which is going to be held for 6 days from this coming November 6th until 11th at Gwangju Yeomju gymnasium, around 240 athletes and officials from 23 different federations are expected to participate. Volunteers will be helping with delegation assistance, game management assistance, interpretation, translation, medical services […]

BRUSSELS – The 12th World University Badminton Championship will be held from November 9th to 14th, 2012 in Gwangju (KOR). The city of Gwangju where the passion for education is among the most fervent in Korea is the home of some 65 colleges and universities which will strive to make the World University Championship a […]

  LJUBLJANA – This year’s European Universities Badminton Championship was the 8th edition of the championship, which took place between June 20 and 25, 2011 in Kharkov, Ukraine. The Opening Ceremony was held on June 21 at the Lokomotive Sports Hall and was attended by the Vice Governor of Kharkov Mr. Yevgeniy Savin, the General […]