Badminton World Invitational Championships
World Invitation Championships was the invitational event in badminton, which was conducted in the absence of a world championship (the first badminton world championship took place only in 1977) brought together top players from all major badminton nations in a kind of unofficial world championship. The winner of this tournament is not called as the World Champions, since the players who compete are only those who receive invitations from the event organizer.[1]
About
[edit | edit source]Thirteen World Invitation Tournaments took place in Scotland from 1954 to 1974 at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. In November 1972, the Asia hosted first World Invitation Tournament in Jakarta. Others followed in Jakarta in October 1974 and in Kuala Lumpur in September 1975. In 1972 only the men's competitions were held and in 1974 and 1975 the women's competitions were reintroduced. 1974 had two editions, first of which was held in Glasgow in March where the second one was held in Jakarta in the month of October. One edition of Invitational World Championship was hosted by now defunct World Badminton Federation (WBF) in 1978.
Winners
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Performances by nation
[edit | edit source]| Ranking | Country | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
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| 1 | Error creating thumbnail: Denmark | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4.5 | 17.5 | |
| 2 |  England
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1 | 1 | 4.5 | 6.5 | 13 | |
| 3 | File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |
 Malaysia
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4 | 5 | 9 | ||||
| 4 | File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland | 1 | 1.5 | 3 | 5.5 | ||
| 5 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Error creating thumbnail: United States | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 6 | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 2.5 | ||
| File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand | 2 | 0.5 | 2.5 | ||||
| 7 | File:Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg Hong Kong | 1 | 1 |
References
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Bibliography
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