Scotland's Callum Smith has taken a silver medal at the Kampala Open in Uganda, marking his first international medal. Speaking to Smith on his preparation for the tournament he said "Before coming to Uganda, I had a solid 3 week block since my most recent tournament in Latvia. My training [...]
Renowned international tournament The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this November BADMINTON SCOTLAND is delighted to announce the return of The Scottish Open Badminton Championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena from 21 – 24 November 2023 and that tickets are now live on our LokkaRoom platform and JustGo. [...]
Kirsty Gilmour has comfortably won her opening game at the China Open 2024, a BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament. This is Gilmour's first tournament since the Paris Olympics and it started confidently as she beat India's Imad Faroqui Samiya in two games 21-9, 21-7. Head Coach Ingo Kindervater was pleased [...]
In July five of Badminton Scotland's players travelled to Malaysia to compete in the Friendship Cup as well as experience some world class training at the National Training Centre. Jonathan Paris, Lewis Haan, Scott Theodus, Ciaran Henderson and Peter Yang were accompanied by Isa McArthur who has been taking Badminton [...]
Over 70 people attended the Inaugural Scottish Chinese Cup this Saturday. Over ten teams competed against each other across the day with gold in mind. Regional Development Officer Rita Yuan Gao organised the event after being involved in many multi sport Chinese Cups that included badminton but wanted to provide [...]
Scotland's Juniors had an incredibly promising tournament at the Under 19 Championships in Dublin Ireland but across the performances there was one that stood out. Brooke Stalker came away with Gold in the mixed and women's doubles after an incredibly intense schedule playing 12 matches in three days. Speaking to [...]
Scotland's juniors had an incredibly successful time at the Under 19 Junior Championships in Ireland at the beginning of the month, most notably in the doubles divisions. Ishbel McCallister and Brooke Stalker won gold in the women's doubles, with Eva Tremble and Vibra Raman playing third. Stalker also won gold [...]
Scotland's Masters Team recently competed at the European Senior Championships in Belgium at the beginning of the month coming away with a plethora of silverware for their efforts. With 16 Scottish players competing, the team brought 4 Golds, 2 Silvers and 3 Bronze across the seven days. Most Notably was [...]
On Saturday 31st August, we gathered in Perth to support the inaugural Qeltic Games event, organised by LEAP Sports Scotland. The Qeltic Games is a grassroots multi-sport event bringing together LGBTIQ+ sports teams, athletes and allies from across the UK and Ireland. There is no other event like this in [...]
Scotland had another very successful weekend at the 4 Nations Graded International winning the Overall trophy. 18 athletes travelled down to the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes with Teams F, G and H all won Gold with team E narrowly missing out on Silver. Speaking to one of the [...]
