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Three Scottish teams are getting ready to compete in the 2019 Island Games, being held in Gibraltar from 6-12 July. Teams from Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles fly out to Gibraltar on 4 July accompanied by coaches Tom Lambert (Orkney), Gordon Keith (Shetland) and Paul Finnegan (Western Isles). Badminton [...]

Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour won a silver medal for Team GB on the last day of competition at the European Games in Minsk. Defeat in the final to second seed Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark denied her a first European gold medal but, although understandably disappointed in not taking the top step [...]

Kirsty Gilmour is just one win away from securing another medal at a major event. The 25-year-old is representing Team GB at the second edition of the European Games, being held in Minsk this week, and earlier today reached the quarter-finals of the women’s singles. With all players who reach [...]

Four players will travel to Basel to represent Scotland at the TOTAL BWF Para-Badminton World Championships this summer. Held alongside the TOTAL BWF World Championships for the first time, the Para-Badminton World Championships take place from 20-25 August in Basel. Colin Leslie, Alan Oliver and Mary Wilson are all aiming [...]

Four players will travel to Basel to represent Scotland at the TOTAL BWF Para-Badminton World Championships this summer. Held alongside the TOTAL BWF World Championships for the first time, the Para-Badminton World Championships take place from 20-25 August in Basel. Colin Leslie, Alan Oliver and Mary Wilson are all aiming [...]

Bobby Laing returned from Dublin with one silver and one bronze medal, won in the Short Stature events at the Irish Para-Badminton Championships. Partnering England’s Rebecca Bedford Laing won group A of the SS6 mixed doubles in convincing fashion to qualify for the knock out stage. They came up against [...]

Kirsty Gilmour couldn’t quite reign in Spain over the weekend but she did manage to return from Madrid with a silver medal. After a negotiating a couple of difficult matches to reach the quarter-finals, Gilmour beat Line Christopherson of Denmark 21-16 21-10, then another Dane, Irina Amalie Andersen 21-18 21-14 [...]

There are five Scots still in contention for Spanish gold this weekend as the Spanish International 2019 takes place in Madrid. In the women’s singles Kirsty Gilmour is top seed and opened her campaign on Thursday by beating Germany’s Fabienne Deprez 24-22 21-11 before surviving a scare on Friday against [...]

Three more clubs have joined the Shuttlemark initiative, Badminton Scotland’s National Club Accreditation Scheme. Aimed at developing and strengthening infrastructure in order to increase membership and participation, a total of 18 clubs have now attained one of the Shuttlemark awards with Allander (East Dunbartonshire), Moravian (Moray) and Orion (Fife) the [...]

These are exciting times for Para Badminton in Scotland! The new Head Coach Sarah Bok, who is a former Badminton England internationalist, wants to ensure the sport in Scotland continues to punch above its weight. Sarah represented England as a junior and then as a senior until 2009. She won [...]

Mauchline’s Holly Newall scored one of the best results of her career over the weekend as she secured a women’s singles silver medal at the Lithuanian International. What looked like a difficult opener was negotiated with relative ease as she beat fourth seed Getter Saar of Estonia 21-16 21-13 in [...]

CONGRATULATIONS Andy Cooke MBE on being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in the Queen’s Birthday 2019 Honours List. Andy has dedicated the last six decades of his life to the coaching, training and nurturing of badminton players to World, European and Commonwealth medals and [...]