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By RJ Mitchell KIRSTY GILMOUR has revealed her pride at the five strong Scottish contingent that will mean a historic 50/50 split with their English counterparts as the constituent parts of the Team GB badminton team who start their 2023 European Games campaign in Kraków today. Last time around in [...]

By RJ Mitchell CIARA TORRANCE has revealed her determination to medal at next week’s European Games Badminton Championships. Ciara and partner Julie MacPherson have been drawn in Group B of the Women’s Doubles competition and will jet out to Krakow, Poland, alongside Kirsty Gilmour, Alex Dunn, and Adam Hall as [...]

By RJ Mitchell ALEX DUNN believes that the four tournament far east swing which has just culminated with the Indonesia Open has confirmed that his partnership with Adam Hall is now a clear and present danger to the very best duos in men’s doubles. During the last month there have [...]

Dundee City Disability Sport Badminton Championships 2023 Dundee City Disability Sport, in partnership with Leisure and Culture Dundee, and supported by Scottish Disability Sport and Badminton Scotland are delighted to host Discovery Games. We all extend a warm welcome to all players, family and friends to the 24th year of [...]

By Jill Smith Badminton Scotland are committed to achieving its vision of Badminton being the biggest participation sport in Scotland bringing people and communities together through Badminton and Lanarkshire Group are in support of that vision. Lanarkshire Group Committee have met in person since the beginning of the season utilising [...]

By RJ Mitchell TODAY marks the one year signpost until Badminton Scotland hosts the 2024 leg of the 4 Nations Para Badminton International from 19-24 June 2024 at Glasgow’s internationally renowned Emirates Arena. With the countdown officially on… we caught up with Badminton Scotland’s National Para Coach Kirsty Flockhart, who [...]

sportscotland Coaching, Officiating & Volunteering (COV) Awards are back for 2023! It was certainly an inspiring and deserving moment last year when Rajani Tyagi was awarded Community Club Coach of the Year at the COV Awards. To build on this achievement of recognising key people within the badminton community, we [...]

On Sunday 4 June 2023 we held our Annual General Meeting at Perth Collage. Interim Chair Frank Turnbull gave his final report as his term comes to an end. Frank has been on the board for nearly 7 years as Vice President, President and latterly Interim Chair. Frank has been a key figure [...]

Ahead of their matches at the Indonesia Open 2023, proud Solibad ambassadors Adam Hall and Kirsty Gilmour visited one of the villages in Indonesia that the badminton charity Solibad give resources to – Bekasi, just a 30-minute drive from the famous Istora Arena. “Visiting the village was a truly eye [...]

By RJ Mitchell KIRSTY GILMOUR is relishing her meeting with ‘team mate’ Beiwen Zhang in the first round of the Kapal Api Group Indonesia Open in Jakarta. The duo both play for Vendsyssel in the Danish ‘Badmintonligaen’ and have become good pals on the international circuit. But when Kirsty meets [...]

Youngsters from West Fife primary schools served up an action-packed day of badminton at a recently held festival. The West Fife Primary Schools’ Badminton Championships was organised with help from Badminton Scotland RDO Jane Russell and brought together kids from 12 schools to showcase their talents on the court. Supported [...]

This year’s 4 Nations Graded International will be held at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre in Glasgow on 19 & 20 August 2023. After the success of the first 2 events in Ireland in 2019 and Wales last year, this year it is Scotland’s turn to host the event and [...]