Martin Farrugia has taken Malta to no less than 4 Badminton World Championships, placing 2nd in the group in the 1995 edition, held in Lausanne Switzerland. Name: Martin Farrugia Age: 57 years Tell us a little about your background either as a participant or a coach I started playing badminton when I was 15 [...]
Malta’s current No.1 female player, Fiorella M Sadowski, will be representing Malta for the second time at the 2016 European Championships, which will be held in France next week. She will compete on the same playground as her badminton idol – left hander and Current World & European Champion, the Spanish Carolina Marin. In her [...]
Yesterday saw the start of the 45th edition of the Malta National Championships organised by Badminton Malta. Games will be split over the five traditional categories – Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles. In the Men’s Singles categories, the first two seeds Matthew Abela and Stefan Salomone made it to [...]
Badminton Malta’s junior squads are undergoing a 2-week intensive training camp, as part of the final preparation for the ISF (international School Sports Federation) World Badminton School Championships which are being held in Malta for the first time at the end of March. The training camp is being conducted by experienced international high-performance junior coach [...]
Effi is the mascot of the forthcoming 2016 International School Sport Federation World Badminton Championships. Effi was chosen following a call for submission of entries for the creation of an event mascot, which had to have a touch of Malta in the design. The winner was Panuwat Sangiam from Thailand who won a logo competition and won an [...]
In March 2016, the Malta School Sport Federation and Badminton Malta will play host to the International School Sport Federation World Badminton Championships having successfully bid to bring this event to Malta. The Championships, aimed towards youths aged between 14 and 17 years of age will see both school and national teams battle it out [...]
4 youngsters will be participating for the second time in the Carlton International Youth Tournament, held in Hoensbroek, Holland, between the 28th and 30th of December 2015. More than 600 players from 15 different countries are expected to take on 3 days of non-stop badminton. On the first two days, the players will be busy [...]
Two Maltese players, will take part in the Yonex Italian International 2015, being staged at the PalaBadminton, in Milan, Italy early next week. This will be Owen Grech and Fiorella-Marie Sadowski’s second international participation this season, following the Turkish International held last August. Games kick off on Tuesday 8th December 2015, with Owen playing his [...]
Because we want every child to have a chance to play badminton Kirkop Sports Complex 22nd November @ 14:30 – 18:30hrs & 29th November @ 14:30 – 18:30hrs (Please be at the complex at 14:00hrs) “Shuttle Time” is BWF’s(Badminton World Federation)Schools Badminton Programme. This programme aimed to help teachers and coaches develop the skills, knowledge [...]
Triple crown national champion and Birkirkara leading player and junior coach Fiorella Marie Sadowski signed a one-year contract with Italian Badminton Serie A team Alba Shuttle. She will in fact be playing the highest league of badminton, the Serie A in Italy. The Italian team of Alba and Birkirkara Badminton Club agreed to terms and [...]
