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 [...]
After the success of our inaugural awards over the past two years, we want to continue to celebrate and recognise the contribution of our incredible players, coaches, volunteers, officials and those who are making a difference to badminton in Scotland. In 2024 our community has continued to make our sport [...]
A congratulations to Biggar’s Erin McIlvaney who won Gold in the badminton event at the 2024 British Transplant Games which ran from 1st to 4th August retaining her title from 2023. This added to her medal haul from last year’s event in Leeds when she took Gold as well as [...]
As the new season draws closer, we are taking the time to look back at the past year with the new initiatives that Badminton Scotland have implemented around the country this year that our community have needed. Across the next month we will be showcasing some of our best projects [...]
Kirsty Gilmour played her first match of the 2024 Paris Olympics this morning against Azerbaijan's Keisha Fatimah Azzahra, winning confidently in straight sets. Gilmour opened the first set with a confident consecutive two points. The Scottish number one had never before played the young 20 year old Azerbaijan player, [...]
Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour is headed to Paris for her third Olympics representing Team GB, where only 14 other badminton athletes competing in France are attending their 3+ Olympic games. “With each Olympics that goes by I feel like I am in a better place physically and performance wise and it [...]
Top-level sporting competitions are challenging enough but for Scotland’s Colin Leslie, the 4 Nations Para-Badminton International presented unprecedented obstacles. Personal tragedy struck Leslie with the loss of his mother the weekend prior to the event. At that moment, he was on the reserve list for the tournament but this [...]
Badminton Scotland were privileged to be invited for the 2nd time to the Shonai U16 International Badminton Invitational in Japan with Alfie Martin and Jaagruti Mannem representing Scotland in this prestigious event. The athletes were away from Wednesday 26 June- Tuesday2 July. The tournament itself was singles only [...]
The 4 Nations Para Badminton International was a huge success, both the competition itself, as well as the morning development activities taking place in the velodrome. These activities were targeted at disabled young people and adults and encouraged them to take up badminton through learning basic skills and playing fun [...]
