{"id":3553,"date":"2023-09-27T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/?page_id=3553"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:20:59","slug":"badminton-wales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/about\/badminton-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Badminton Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div 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fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston.png\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kelly Aston\" aria-label=\"Kelly Aston\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston-128x128.png 128w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/KellyAston-300x300.png 300w, 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data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Badminton Wales (formerly Welsh Badminton Union or WBU) is the national governing body for badminton in Wales. Formed in 1928 as The Welsh Badminton Union, in 1934 it was one of the founder members of the Badminton World Federation. WBU became a member of the European Badminton Union in 1968 (now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badmintoneurope.com\/Cms\/\">Badminton Europe<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Badminton Wales is Kelly Aston (nee Morgan) MBE OLY who won 13 consecutive Women&#8217;s Singles titles at the Welsh National Badminton Championships between 1992 and 2004, as well as six Women&#8217;s Doubles and 4 Mixed Doubles titles. In 1998, she received a gold medal representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games, won silver at the 1998 European Badminton Championships, and bronze at the 2000 European Badminton Championships. She also represented Great Britain at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Our local contact as North Wales Regional Community Manager is Joshua Hart who can be contacted on <a href=\"mailto:joshua.hart@badminton.wales\"><b>joshua.hart@badminton.wales<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-3d button-xlarge button-darkgray fusion-button-darkgray button-1 fusion-button-span-no \" style=\"--button_text_transform:capitalize;--button_typography-letter-spacing:5px;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/badminton.wales\/\"><i class=\"fa-info-circle fas button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Badminton Wales Website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553\/revisions\/4977"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}