6-986: The European Badminton Circuit is a series of international badminton tournaments in Europe, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The circuit consists of BWF International Challenge , BWF International Series and BWF Future Series tournaments held in Europe. The circuit usually starts in September and ends in April. BWF International Challenge tournaments offers more than $ 20,000 prize money, while BWF International Series tournaments offers more than $ 8,000 prize money. BWF Future Series tournaments offers up to $ 8,000 of prize money. The distribution of prize mone differs on each tournament type. BWF International Challenge tournaments rewards prize money for semifinalist for singles and only both finalist for doubles. BWF International Series tournaments offers prize money for finalist for singles and
12-519: The BWF-sanctioned tournament. The points awarded is based on the final results of each tournament participated for the past 52 weeks. Junior Ranking consists of players under 19 years old. The BWF regularly organises seven major international badminton events and two events for para-badminton : Major tournaments: Other major tournaments: Para major tournaments: Event(s) are no longer held regularly: Grade 2 tournaments, known as BWF World Tour
18-776: The IBF merged with the World Badminton Federation , and on 24 September 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid , the name of the organization was changed to Badminton World Federation . When the BWF was founded, its head office was located in Cheltenham , UK. It was then relocated to Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia on October 1, 2005. Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen is the current president. The BWF has 201 member nations around
24-683: The doubles champion. BWF Future Series tournaments only distribute prize money to champions of singles and doubles. Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation , aka BWF , is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee . It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada , Denmark , England , France , Ireland , Netherlands , New Zealand , Scotland and Wales . In 1981,
30-437: The world, organized into 5 continental confederations. The BWF works in co-operation with regional governing bodies to promote and develop the sport of badminton around the world, they are: Below is the list of presidents since 1934: The BWF World Ranking and BWF World Junior Ranking are introduced to determine the strength of the players. BWF World Ranking is used for determining the qualification for entry and seeding for
36-476: Was sanctioned into six levels with different world ranking points awarded, as order they are: The events that were formerly held from 2007 to 2017 are: Grade 3 tournaments, known as Continental Circuit was sanctioned into three levels with different world ranking points awarded, as order they are: The BWF bestows special honours onto players, umpires, sponsors, and other individuals for their achievement in badminton or for their contributions to badminton. Over
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