User:PauKur/sandbox/Para Badminton

Foundation
The International Badminton Association for Disabled (IBAD) was founded on 17 June 1995 in Stoke Mandeville / England as the organising body for disabled badminton at international level.

The founding countries were: Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and Switzerland.

The goal of IBAD was to promote, develop and organise disabled badminton.

At the General Assembly on 10 June 2000, the IBAD statutes and regulations were completely revised under the leadership of Switzerland. The aim was to align the rules and regulations as closely as possible with those of the International Badminton Federation (IBF; since 2006 Badminton World Federation BWF).

On 9 October 2008, the first key meeting for a deeper cooperation between IBAD and BWF took place. Torsten Berg (BWF Vice President) and Paul Kurzo (Interim President IBAD) met for the first time in Lausanne to discuss ideas and future perspectives.

In 2009, three workshops were held under the slogan «One Sport - One Team» with the aim of integrating IBAD into BWF. Important topics were:
 * Integration model
 * Structure within BWF
 * Integration of the rules and regulations
 * Classification system
 * Technical officials
 * Financial aspects
 * Human resources
 * Achieving observer status in the IPC

The following persons attended at least one of the three workshops:


 * from IBAD: Antony Forster, Günter Klützke, Paul Kurzo, Jim McKay,
 * from BWF: Torsten Berg, Lawrence Chew, Günther Huber, Lisa Zender
 * from BEC: Hans Lenkert

During the IBAD World Championships in Seoul / South Korea, the Annual General Assembly of IBAD took place on 9 September 2009. Guests from BWF were Paisan Rangsikitpho / BWF Deputy President and Torsten Berg / BWF Vice President. The members of IBAD agreed in principle to the integration into BWF. At the same time, the change of name from IBAD to PBWF Parabadminton World Federation was decided.

PBWF – Parabadminton World Federation
On 27 November 2009, the BWF Board agreed to the following:


 * that the BWF Statutes amendments be adapted to allow PBWF to be integrated into BWF.
 * a BWF Parabadminton Commission will be installed in BWF
 * the President of PBWF becomes an invited member of the BWF Executive Board
 * delegated to the Chair of the BWF IOC/IR Committee, COO and Secretary General to finalise a Memorandum of Understanding.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by BWF President Dr Kang and PBWF President Paul Kurzo on 14 May 2010. At the same time, an official BWF Parabadminton Working Group was established with four BWF and five PBWF representatives. The PBWF President was allowed to attend BWF Board meetings from May 2010 onwards as Chair of the Parabadminton Commission.

At the BWF General Assembly, 28 May 2011, in Qingdao / China, the amendments to the Statutes were accepted by the member countries and nothing more stood in the way of the integration of PBWF into BWF.

A few days later, on 3 June 2011, the following points were voted on at the PBWF General Assembly in Dortmund / Germany:


 * Dr. Silvia Albrecht / Switzerland and Jim Mackay / Wales present a newly revised classification system, which provides for only six instead of twelve classes
 * Integration of PBWF into BWF and dissolution of PBWF

All the above points are important to become a Paralympic sport by IPC and were all accepted by the member countries.

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The IBAD Executive Committee Positions
Chairman, Technical / Medical Officer and Treasurer Chairman, 1st Vice Chairman, 2nd Vice Chairman, Technical/Medical Officer, 1st Secretary, 2nd Secretary and Treasurer Chairman, 1st Vice Chairman, 2nd Vice Chairman, Technical Officer, Medical Officer, Secretary and Treasurer President, Vice President, Technical Officer, Medical Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and Asian Representative President, Vice President, Technical Officer, Medical Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and Chair of all Confederations
 * style="width:7em;" | 1995 – 1997
 * 3 Committee positions
 * 3 Committee positions
 * 1998
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 1999 – 2002
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 2003 – 2009
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 2009 – 2011
 * 7 Committee positions
 * 7 Committee positions
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Elections and Terms

 * style="width:7em;" | 1995 – 1998
 * every year all Committee were to be elected
 * 1998 – 2003
 * Committee members were elected for two years (half a year, the other half for two years - then all for two years - "so that not all knowledge simultaneously disappears from the Committee"))
 * 2003 – 2011
 * the Committee members were elected for four years (same procedure as 1998 - half/half with 2 and 4 years))
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 * 2003 – 2011
 * the Committee members were elected for four years (same procedure as 1998 - half/half with 2 and 4 years))
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Various positions in IBAD and PBWF
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President/Chairman

 * style="width:7em;" | 1995 – 2008
 * Jim Frere / England – resigned
 * 2008 – 2009
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland – temporary as acting President until next General Assembly
 * 2009 – 2011
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland
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 * 2009 – 2011
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland
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1st Vice President/Chairman

 * style="width:7em;" | 1998 – 2007
 * Moshe Bar-Hen / Israel
 * 2007 – 2009
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland
 * 2009 – 2011
 * Lyndon Williams / Wales
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 * 2009 – 2011
 * Lyndon Williams / Wales
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2nd Vice President/Chairman

 * style="width:7em;" | 1998 – 1999
 * U. Larkoff / Russia
 * 1999 – 2000
 * Igor Kil / Russia
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 * Igor Kil / Russia
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Development Officer

 * style="width:7em;" | 2011 – 2011
 * Lyndon Williams / Wales
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Technical/Medical officer

 * style="width:7em;" | 1995 – 1998
 * Jim MacKay / Wales - then spited in two positions
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Technical Officer

 * style="width:7em;" | 1999 – 2003
 * Ton Velberg / Netherland
 * 2003 – 2011
 * Günter Klützke / Germany
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 * Günter Klützke / Germany
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Medical Officer → Head of Classification

 * style="width:7em;" | 1999 – 2011
 * Jim MacKay / Wales
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1st Secretary

 * style="width:7em;" | 1998 – 2003
 * Jan Kraaij / Netherland
 * 2003 – 2008
 * Ton Velberg / Netherland - resigned
 * 2008 – 2009
 * Jim MacKay / Wales – temporary as acting 1st Secretary until next General Assembly
 * 2009 – 2011
 * Kay Coady / Australia
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 * 2009 – 2011
 * Kay Coady / Australia
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2nd Secretary

 * style="width:7em;" | 1998 – 1999
 * Georg Vogel / Germany
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Treasurer

 * style="width:7em;" | 1995 – 2003
 * Bert van der Lobbe / Netherland
 * 2003 – 2005
 * Jan Kraaij / Netherland
 * 2005 – 2007
 * Ben Massing / Netherland
 * 2007 – 2011
 * Antony Forster / England
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 * 2007 – 2011
 * Antony Forster / England
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Asian Representative

 * style="width:7em;" | 2003 – 2008
 * Asam Ariffin / Malaysia
 * 2009 – 2011
 * Myong Won Seo / South Korea
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 * Myong Won Seo / South Korea
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European Representative

 * style="width:7em;" | 2007 – 2008
 * Jim Mackay / Wales
 * 2009 – 2010
 * Clyd Davis / Wales
 * 2010 – 2011
 * Derek Bachelor / England
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 * 2010 – 2011
 * Derek Bachelor / England
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Chair of all Confederation Representatives

 * style="width:7em;" | 2009 – 2011
 * Myong Won Seo / South Korea
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Integration and dissolution PBWF
With the votes of 28 May 2011 (BWF) and 3 June 2011 (PBWF), 16 years of independence for Parabadminton came to an end. From now on, Parabadminton is under the umbrella of the BWF and the federation was dissolved.

At the BWF General Assembly on 28 May 2011 in Qingdao / China, among other things, the amendments to the Statutes for the integration of Parabadminton, the new position of "Vice-President Paralympic Relations" were adopted and the BWF Executive Board was authorised to appoint an interim Vice-President "Paralympic Relations". From 2013 onwards, the Vice-President will be elected by the BWF General Assembly for a four-year term.

At their next meeting, the BWF Board appointed the former IBAD President as the new BWF Board member in this position, which has since been renamed "Vice President Para Badminton".

Between 2012 and 2015, the entire Parabadminton regulations are integrated into the BWF manuals or amended there.

During the years, Parabadminton was renamed Para-Badminton and finally Para Badminton.

In 2020, Para Badminton will take part in the Paralympics for the first time (however, due to the Corona pandemic, the Games have been postponed by one year).

BWF Council Members
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Vice President Para Badminton

 * style="width:7em;" | 2011 – 2013
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland – appointed by BWF Council
 * 2013 – Heute
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland – elected by the BWF Member Associations
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 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland – elected by the BWF Member Associations
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Para Badminton Athletes Commission Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2020 – 2021
 * Richard Perrot / France – elected from the Para Badminton players
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BWF Para Badminton Committee (members can only be BWF Council Members)
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Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2011 – today
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland
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Deputy Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2011 – 2012
 * Torsten Berg / Denmark
 * 2013 – 2021
 * Wayne Somers / Canada
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 * Wayne Somers / Canada
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Committee Members

 * style="width:7em;" | 2011 – 2011
 * Lawrence Chew / Switzerland
 * 2012 – today
 * Geraldine Brown / Australia
 * 2013 – today
 * Nora Perry / England
 * 2017 – 2021
 * KhunyingPatama Leeswadtrakul / Thailand
 * 2020 – 2021
 * Richard Perrot / France
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 * KhunyingPatama Leeswadtrakul / Thailand
 * 2020 – 2021
 * Richard Perrot / France
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BWF Para Badminton Commission (members with Para Badminton background)
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Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – today
 * Paul Kurzo / Switzerland
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Deputy Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – 2012
 * Torsten Berg / Denmark
 * 2013 – 2021
 * Wayne Somers / Canada
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 * Wayne Somers / Canada
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Head of Classification

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – 2020
 * Dr. Silvia Albrecht / Switzerland
 * 2021 – today
 * Dr. Shamsul Azar Shah / Malaysia
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 * Dr. Shamsul Azar Shah / Malaysia
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Medical Officer

 * style="width:7em;" | |2012 – 2020
 * Dr. Shamsul Azar Shah / Malaysia
 * 2021 – today
 * Dr Komwudh Konchalard (Bird) / Thailand
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 * Dr Komwudh Konchalard (Bird) / Thailand
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Technical Officer (2 person)

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – today
 * Günter Klützke / Germany
 * 2012 – today
 * Torsten Berg / Denmark
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 * Torsten Berg / Denmark
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Development Officer

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – today
 * Lyndon Williams / Wales
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Athletes Commission Chair (before it was called athletes' representative)

 * style="width:7em;" | 2012 – 2013
 * Eyal Bechar / Israel
 * 2013 – today
 * Richard Perot / France
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 * Richard Perot / France
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Athletes Commission Deputy Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2013 – 2017
 * Yau Tiam Ann / Malaysia
 * 2017 – today
 * Raul Anguiano / Guatemala
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 * Raul Anguiano / Guatemala
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BWF Para Badminton Athletes Commission
Before the introduction of the Athlete Commission, there was for a short time an Athlete Representative in the Para Badminton Commission.

1st Athletes Commission was elected during WC 2013 in Dortmund / Germany

2nd Athletes Commission was elected during WC 2017 in Ulsan / South Korea

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Athletes Commission Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2013 – today
 * Richard Perot / France
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Athletes Commission Deputy Chair

 * style="width:7em;" | 2013 – 2017
 * Yau Tiam Ann / Malaysia
 * 2017 – today
 * Raul Anguiano / Guatemala
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 * Raul Anguiano / Guatemala
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Athletes Commission Members

 * style="width:7em;" | 2013 – 2017
 * Antony Forster / England
 * 2013 – 2017
 * Martin Rocke / England
 * 2017 – 2021
 * Anand Kumar / India
 * 2017 – 2021
 * Bello Rafiu Oyebanji / Nigeria
 * 2017 – 2021
 * Daniel Chan / Hong Kong
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 * Bello Rafiu Oyebanji / Nigeria
 * 2017 – 2021
 * Daniel Chan / Hong Kong
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The way to the Paralympics
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 * style="width:7em;" | 2001
 * At the IBAD Annual General Meeting, the President stated that there is a good contact with IBF and they hope for a good cooperation.
 * It is also the wish of IBF to help IBAD to reach the Paralympics 2008. Now IBAD has to try to fulfil the criteria.
 * IBAD will have a meeting with Juan Palou (IPC).
 * IBAD will have a meeting with Juan Palou (IPC).


 * 2005
 * A meeting was held at the IBF headquarters in Cheltenham on 14 July, attended by Jim Frere and Jim Mackay on behalf of IBAD and Torsten Berg and Lindsey Bell on behalf of the IBF.
 * The aim of this meeting was to produce an IBAD/IBF presentation which was forwarded to IPC headquarters in early September for recognition of Para Badminton as a Paralympic sport.
 * A meeting was held at the IBF headquarters in Cheltenham on 14 July, attended by Jim Frere and Jim Mackay on behalf of IBAD and Torsten Berg and Lindsey Bell on behalf of the IBF.
 * The aim of this meeting was to produce an IBAD/IBF presentation which was forwarded to IPC headquarters in early September for recognition of Para Badminton as a Paralympic sport.


 * 2007
 * At the end of the year, a BWF-IBAD application for inclusion in the London 2012 Paralympic Games was submitted, but was not successful. (For reasons see under 2008)
 * 2008
 * At the end of the year, a BWF-IBAD application for inclusion in the London 2012 Paralympic Games was submitted, but was not successful. (For reasons see under 2008)
 * 2008
 * 2008

IBAD, BWF and Paralympics: The actual starting point

 * In December 2007 and twice in January 2008, IBAD wrote to member countries to request information needed to be accepted into the IPC and the Paralympic Games. Despite repeated requests, the response rate was less than 40 per cent!
 * The IPC also criticised the fact that most of the countries on the list did not regularly participate in tournaments. This was one of the reasons why Para Badminton was not included for the 2012 Paralympics.


 * With a newly formed board, the topic of the Paralympics was tackled with renewed energy.


 * Am 6. Oktober nahm Torsten Berg (BWF-Vizepräsident) telefonisch Kontakt zu Paul Kurzo (IBAD’s Interimspräsident) auf. Schon drei Tage später trafen sie sich in Lausanne / Schweiz, der in der Europavertretung der BWF, zu ersten Gesprächen.
 * BWF und IBAD wollen nun stetigen Kontakt haben und an einem Strang ziehen um den paralympischen Status zu erreichen.
 * 2009
 * On 14 January, Torsten Berg and Günther Huber met with David Grevemberg, Executive Director for Sport at the IPC.
 * 2010
 * The PBWF bid for inclusion in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games was not successful.
 * A big disadvantage here was that Para Badminton was not yet fully integrated into BWF
 * 2010
 * The PBWF bid for inclusion in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games was not successful.
 * A big disadvantage here was that Para Badminton was not yet fully integrated into BWF
 * A big disadvantage here was that Para Badminton was not yet fully integrated into BWF


 * 2012
 * An additional accompanying action to be accepted as a Paralympic sport was the adjustment of the sports classes. These were reduced from 12 to 6 in 2012. These newly introduced classes are still in place today.
 * 2014
 * On 12 June, the IF meeting at the IPC headquarters in Bonn was attended by the following people from BWF: Poul-Erik Høyer - President, Paul Kurzo - Vice President Para-Badminton, Dr Silvia Albrecht - Head of Classification, Günter Klützke - Para-Badminton Commission and Stuart Borrie - Director of Operations.
 * Various things were discussed with the IPC representatives, including a number of possible scenarios for integration for Tokyo Paralympics 2020.
 * The meeting was seen as very positive overall by both sides.
 * On 12 June, the IF meeting at the IPC headquarters in Bonn was attended by the following people from BWF: Poul-Erik Høyer - President, Paul Kurzo - Vice President Para-Badminton, Dr Silvia Albrecht - Head of Classification, Günter Klützke - Para-Badminton Commission and Stuart Borrie - Director of Operations.
 * Various things were discussed with the IPC representatives, including a number of possible scenarios for integration for Tokyo Paralympics 2020.
 * The meeting was seen as very positive overall by both sides.
 * The meeting was seen as very positive overall by both sides.


 * Para Badminton and Taekwondo were the only new summer sports federations selected by the IPC to participate in Phase II of the process. This ended with the submission of the application on 25 July 2014.


 * On 5 October, the various IFs were allowed to present their sport to the IPC Governing Board.
 * For BWF, the following people were involved in the presentation: Poul-Erik Høyer - President, Paul Kurzo - Vice President Para-Badminton and Stuart Borrie - Director of Operations.


 * On 6 and 7 October, the IPC Governing Board deliberated on the final line-up of sports for Tokyo 2020.


 * On 14 October, we received notification from IPC that our bid to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics was successful. IPC announces the first 16 sports for Tokyo 2020 - Badminton is included
 * 2015
 * On 31 January, IPC announces the sports for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
 * On 31 January, IPC announces the sports for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
 * On 31 January, IPC announces the sports for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games


 * In mid-November, Poul-Erik Høyer - BWF President and Paul Kurzo - BWF Vice President Para Badminton attended the IPC General Assembly in Mexico City.
 * One of the items on the agenda was the formal vote to accept BWF as a new member. Until now, BWF was only a provisional member of IPC.
 * BWF was confirmed as a member along with three other International Sports Federations and nine other organisations
 * On 15 November, the IPC General Assembly in Mexico City confirmed BWF as a new IPC member.
 * 2017
 * On 4 September – Tokyo 2020 Paralympic medal event programme announced
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1995 – 2011
Over the years, there have been repeated requests from the member countries that more severely injured athletes are treated unfairly in the respective classes and that there should therefore be additional classes for these athletes. These requests were then mostly agreed to and there were more classes from year to year.

1995

Sitting

Wheelchair Class 1 - disability of trunk function

Wheelchair Class 2 – non-disability of trunk functions

Standing Class 1 - above body disability

Standing Class 2 - below body

2004

BMW1 (Wheelchair Class 1)

BMW2 (Wheelchair Class 2)

BMW3 (Wheelchair Class 3)

BMSTL1 (Standing Below Waist Class 1)

BMSTL2 (Standing Below Waist Class 2)

BMSTL3 (Standing Below Waist Class 3)

BMSTU4 (Standing Above Waist Class 1)

BMSTU5 (Standing Above Waist Class 2)

BMDST6 (Dwarfs)

2008

W1 (Wheelchair Class 1)

W2 (Wheelchair Class 2)

W3 (Wheelchair Class 3)

STL1 (Standing Below Waist Class 1)

STL2a (Standing Below Waist Class 2a)

STL2 (Standing Below Waist Class 2)

STL3a (Standing Below Waist Class 3a)

STL3 (Standing Below Waist Class 3)

STU4 (Standing Above Waist Class 1)

STU5 (Standing Above Waist Class 2)

DST6 (Dwarfs Class 1)

DST7 (Dwarfs Class 2)

Many classes have the advantage that the athletes feel they are treated more fairly. However, the consequence of this was that there were no longer enough athletes per sports class because of the many sports classes. Therefore, different classes had to be combined again and again in order to play a competition. Thus, sometimes the athletes played in their assigned class (= correct class), sometimes they had to play in the less impaired class (= big disadvantages because they are more impaired) and sometimes they were allowed to play in a more impaired class (= big advantages because they are less impaired, whereby the fairness aspect fell by the wayside.

Other disadvantages of this system were:


 * No "clean" ranking, as the games were always played in different combined sports classes.
 * little chance to recommend themselves for the Paralympics with so many classes.

Even before the integration of IBAD/PBWF into BWF, it was therefore decided to revise the entire classification system and to reduce the number of sports classes.

2012 – today
At the PBWF General Assembly on 3 June 2011 in Dortmund / Germany, the newly revised classification system was presented by Dr. Silvia Albrecht / Switzerland and Jim Mackay / Wales. This provides for only six classes instead of twelve.

After the adoption of the classification system, all athletes had to be reclassified.

Athletes must be assigned to one of six sport classes. These ensure that athletes are able to compete with other athletes with similar impairments depending on their physical disability and guarantee fairness in para-badminton.

The latest classification documents are published on the BWF website.

Events
As in badminton, Para badminton athletes compete in men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

Doubles and mixed combinations for all competitions
The following rules apply to doubles and mixed - (sport class = points):

International tournaments
For international competitions, all competitions must always be offered.

Paralympics
The following competitions will be held at the Paralympics: