The African preliminaries of the Thomas (world men’s team badminton championship) and Uber (world women’s team badminton championship) Cups from which the winning countries will represent Africa in the final stage will be held 17 to 21 February 2008 in Mauritius.  The tournaments were transferred from its original location, Kenya, as a result of the current domestic unrest in that country. 

The final stages of the 2008 Thomas Cup and the 2008 Uber Cup will be held in Indonesia during May 2008.  In the past only Asian and European countries were able to qualify teams to the final stage, but now there will be at least one team from each of the five continents in the final stage.  The 12 teams to participate in the final stage will be, six from Asia, three from Europe, one from Africa, one from Oceania and one from Pan-America. 

Badminton South Africa, which won both preliminaries of this bi-annual event in 2006, have selected experienced teams for this year’s tournament and should be regarded as strong favourites.  The following teams will be representing South Africa:  Thomas Cup -   Chris Dednam and Roelof Dednam (FS), Wiaan Viljoen (NG), Dorian James (Capt.) and Enrico James (WP);  Uber Cup -  Michelle Edwards (Capt.), Stacey Doubell and Jade Morgan (WP), Annari Viljoen (NG), Chantal Botts and Kerry-Lee Harrington (KZN);  National Coach:  Johan Kleingeld;  Manager:  Prof. Martin Dednam. 

With Enrico James selected to make his debut, South Africa’s list of family members included in national teams has taken a new page.  Whereas the likes of Philips’ and Parsons’ of the past have represented the nation in different teams, the James brothers now join the Dednam brothers in the same team.  In addition, while the women and men will play in different competitions, Wiaan Viljoen will be joined by his sister Annari at the same tournament.

1er Double Hommes  :

1er Double Dames :

1er Double Mixte : M. Sayaad (Egypte) & N. Ashraf (Egypte)
 

ALL AFRICA U/15 TEAM EVENTS  “B” SECTION RESULTS 

TOUS LES RESULTATS    http://www.badmintonsa.org/tournaments_juniors.htm

2007 SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON TOURNAMENT IN PRETORIA

TOUS LES RESULTATS

SA International Open - Dec 2007 - MS, WS, MD, WD, MxD    - Source Badminton South Africa (BSA)

1er Simple Homme MEHRABI Kaveh (Iran)	1er Simple Dame TAVERA Lucia (Espagne)

Sélections des Equipes qui représenteront l'Afrique du Sud
aux Championnats des -15ans à Pretoria du 2 au 8 décembre 2007

Northern Gauteng Badminton

Northern Gauteng Badminton Association (NGBA) is affiliated to Badminton South Africa (BSA)

  http://www.up.ac.za/sport/sportclubs/badminton/index.php

NG Badminton now has its own website. The link is: www.ngbadminton.co.za

KLRC World Junior Championships 2007 en Nouvelle-Zélande
25 octobre au 4 novembre 2007

L'Afrique du Sud  est le seul pays de la zone Afrique présent à ce championnat du Monde Juniors
avec 2 hommes (Louw Reinard, Maliekal Jacob) et 2 femmes (Fry Jennifer, Godfrey Debbie).

Time	Draw				Score
Thu 10/25/2007 6:30 PM	KLRC World Junior Championships - Y1	South Africa[RSA]	-	[BUL] Bulgaria	0-5
Fri 10/26/2007 12:00 PM	KLRC World Junior Championships - Y1	Malaysia[MAS]	-	[RSA] South Africa	5-0
Fri 10/26/2007 6:30 PM	KLRC World Junior Championships - Y Playoff	South Africa[RSA]	-	[CZE] Czech Republic	0-3
Sat 10/27/2007 10:30 AM	KLRC World Junior Championships - Finals 21-24	South Africa[RSA]	-	[TPE] Chinese Taipei	0-3

 

Boys Singles 
NZL Ethan Haggo  / RSA Jacob Malieka  21-8 / 21-1
 SIN Zong Ren Ng  / RSA Reinard Louw 21-13 / 21-15

Girls Singles
TPE Pei Hsin Chiang  / RSA Debbie Godfrey 21-6 / 21-3
IND Siki Reddy  / RSA Jennifer Fry 21-9 / 21-6

Boys Doubles 
VIE  Bang Duc Bui - Manh Thang Dao / RSA Jacob Malieka - Reinard Louw  21-13 / 21-12

Girls Doubles
CHN Jing Xie - Qianxin Zhong  / RSA Jennifer Fry - Debbie Godfrey 21-4 / 21-4

Mixed Doubles
RUS Ivan Sozonov - Ksenya Polikarpova  / RSA Jacob Malieka - Debbie Godfrey 21-11 /  21-11

Mixed Doubles
KOR Baek Choel Shin - Hyun Young Yoo / RSA Reinard Louw - Jennifer Fry 21-1 / 21-5
 

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“Beijing 2008” Olympic Scholarship
We have been advised by our NOC (SASCOC) that Chris Dednam has been awarded an Olympic Scholarship relating to Beijing 2008.
“Only six scholarships were awarded in South Africa and we are indeed grateful that Badminton was one of them,” said Larry Keys, President of BSA.
As a scholarship holder, Chris will play an important role as ambassador of the Olympic Movement by representing a concrete example of the IOC’s policy of Solidarity throughout the world.
In addition to providing a training grant to an Olympic scholarship holder, Olympic Solidarity wants to ensure that the athlete maximizes his chances of qualifying for the Beijing Olympic Games by offering additional funding towards their air travel costs to participate in international qualification competitions.

National Squads   April – June 2007

	PROTON  WBF  WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS   13-19 Août 2007   Kuala Lumpur  MALAISIE
Présence Africaine :	SH : Lasmari N. (ALG)  SD : Foo Kune K. (MRI)  DH : Patel H. & Ruto P. (KEN) - Dednam R. & Dednam C. (RSA)  DD : Youssef A. & Hosny H. (EGY)  DM : James D.L. & Edwards M.C. (RSA) - Cupidon G. & Ah-Wan J. (SEY)

RSA Junior team beat Egypt 3-1 to win the All Africa Juniors 
They topped the medal table with 5 gold medals

Boys: Jacob Maliekal, Reinard Louw, Ian Edwards
Girls:  Jennifer Fry, Shereen Matthews, Jason Roets
Manager: Ms. Lorraine Du Plesiss   -  Coach: Mr. Johan Kleingeld

Old Boy Rowen Brown Selected for National Badminton's Korea Excursion. 6 August 2007 (Glenwood High School Durban RSA)
The team that went to Korea for the Badminton World Junior Championships. Rowen's mixed doubles partner is Jennifer Fry from Northern Gauteng.

Universiade d’été 2007 : la France vainqueur de la Zambie et de l’Afrique du Sud…
Bangkok (Thaïlande) 8-18 août 2007 source FFBA et Badminton-Web

Après avoir vaincu la Zambie par forfait, notre équipe de France affrontait aujourd’hui l’Afrique du Sud. Belle performance de nos français, tous vainqueurs de leur match contre le pays africain :
Dans le premier match de la journée, Brice Leverdez s’est facilement imposé face à Rowen Brown en 2 sets, 21/8 21/14.
En Simple Dame, Perrine Lubuhanic affrontait Kerry lee Harrington. Victoire pour la française en 2 sets, 21/14 21/10.
En double hommes, La paire Quere/Careme a gagné contre la paire Brown/Visser en 2 sets 21/18 21/11. Même performance pour notre paire Delaune/Matias en double dames. Elless remportent le match en 2 sets 21/12 21/18 face au duo English/Johnson .
Enfin, belle victoire pour Despierres et Lo Ying Ping en mixte vainqueurs de la paire Brown/Visser en 21 sets 21/12 21/15.
Demain, la tâche s’annonce plus difficile. Nos français affronteront la Thaïlande.

Robert Abrahams	James Dorian Lance	Joseph Willie	Kleingeld Johannes Jaco	Viljoen Willem Abraham	Dednam Roelef Jacobys	Dednam Christoffel
Botts Chantal	Doubell Stacey	Dypreez Charne	Edwards Michelle Claire	Harrington Kerry-Lee	Morgan Jane Leigh

Badminton brothers off to USA www.uovs.ac.za
KOVSIES's badminton brothers, Chris and Roelof Dednam, were after their recent international successes in Kenya and China included in the International Badminton Federation's preliminary list of qualifiers for the world individual championships in August in Anaheim, California.  Chris qualified for the singles championship, and the two brothers together for the men's doubles. 
Michelle Edwards (WP) can also take part in the singles and together with Chantal Botts (KZN) in the women's doubles.  In the mixed doubles no pair of South Africa qualified, due to absence on the ranking list because they did not take part in sufficient international tournaments during the past year due to lack of financing.

UFS badminton player in Bulgaria for training camp  www.uovs.ac.za

ROELOF DEDNAM (21), a B Acc student in his third year at the University of the Free State, left for Sofia, Bulgaria, to join the International Badminton Federation's (IBF) East-European training centre for three weeks. Dednam was invited with Robert Abrahams (WP), the South African  junior champion, to attend the international training camp.  Sixteen international players from different countries take part in such a camp. The camp normally lasts two months, but they will return after three weeks in time for the national championships.
Since 2004, he and his brother Chris have been the national doubles champions, as well as the SA International champions for three years in succession.
He is a regular member of the national team, which he first made at the age of 18.  He is the holder of five under-15, five under-17, five under-19 and two senior national titles. He also won four gold and two silver medals at the All Africa Junior Championships in 2001 and 2003.
Dednam is generally regarded as the best doubles player in Africa, but is also rated third in South Africa as a singles player, while he again made his mark this year as a mixed doubles player.

Badminton players show their class  www.uovs.ac.za
Kovsie badminton players showed their class at the 2007 All African Championships held in Rose Hills, Mauritius during May, just as they did last year in Algeria.
In the individual championships in the men's double event Chris and Roelof Dednam again successfully combined for gold with a victory in the final over Steve Malcouzane and Georgie Cupidon of the Seychelles. Chris Dednam and Michelle Edwards also made the final
round in the mixed double event, but were beaten by Georgie Cupidon and Julliette Ahwan (Seychelles) to settle for a silver medal.
In the men's singles event Chris Dednam equalled last year's performance and was awarded with bronze, having lost 24-22 in the third set in the semi-finals in a marathon match against Eli Mambwe (Zambia). It was therefore once again in the men's singles where South Africa could not vest their supremacy in Africa. But, Chris improved his tally of medals to gold, silver and bronze. Roelof also showed good form by making the quarter-finals in the singles as well as the mixed doubles.
Fellow Kovsie, Wiaan Viljoen, joined the Dednam brothers and the rest of the South African team for silver in the team competition.
A week earlier, in the Mauritius International tournament, Chris won gold by winning the mixed doubles event with Michelle Edwards (against the same Georgie Cupidon and Julliette Ahwan), while the Dednam brothers had to settle for silver in the men's double event losing to Germany's Thomas Tesche and Jochen Cassel.
 

From left are: Dorian James en Wiaan Viljoen (silver medals) and Roelof en Chris Dednam (gold medals) on the podium at the African championships in Algiers.

South African badminton players last week in Algiers, Algeria, again dominated the medals table at the 2006 All African Championships with eight medals, including the team gold. 

The team competition was concluded with victories over Botswana 5-0, Algeria 4-1, Sudan 5-0, Cameroon 5-0, Ethiopia 5-0 and Egypt 5-0 in the group A play-off, a 3-2 win over Mauritius in the semi-final, and a 3-0 victory over hosts Algeria in the final.
In the individual championships Michelle Edwards successfully competed for gold in the women's double with a new partner, Stacey Doubell.  In the women’s single event Stacey Doubell also made her mark with a silver medal.
In the men’s double Chris Dednam also successfully competed for gold with a new partner, in his brother Roelof, while Dorian James this time partnering Wiaan Viljoen won the silver medal.  In the men’s single Chris Dednam was this time supported by Wiaan Viljoen, both winning bronze for their country. 
Dorian James and Michelle Edwards (bronze in 2004) improved in the mixed double event by making the final round for a silver medal. 
The young national junior champion, Robert Abrahams, and other relative newcomers to the senior team, Kerry-Lee Harrington and Charné du Preez, also managed to win a few good matches in the single events.

	Championnats du Monde Juniors Inchéon (Corée) Novembre 2006 Individuels et par Equipes
	(Présence Afrique du Sud)
	SH	ROWEN BROWN - ROBERT ABRAHAMS
	SD	SHERILEE JOHNSON - JENNIFER FRY
	DH	ROWEN BROWN - ROBERT ABRAHAMS
	DD	SHERILEE JOHNSON & JENNIFER FRY
	DM	ROWEN BROWN & SHERILEE JOHNSON ROBERT ABRAHAMS & JENNIFER FRY

MELBOURNE 2006 (15-26 mars 2006)

NATIONAL SENIOR SQUAD : 8 OCTOBER 2005 TO 31 MARCH 2006

Women :                                                               Men : 

Michelle Edwards (WP)                                         Chris Dednam (FS)
Marika Daubern (NG)                                            Wiaan Viljoen (FS)
Annari Viljoen (FS)                                                Roelof Dednam (FS)
Kerry-Lee Harrington (KZN)                                 Dorian James (WP)
Chantal Botts (KZN)                                              Enrico James (WP)
Charné du Preez (NG)                                            Gerhard Herselman (NG)
Stacey Doubell (WP)                                              Johan Kleingeld (FS)
Jade Morgan (WP)                                                 Rowen Brown (KZN)

Qualifier South Africa Number of participating country 15 Number of qualifier 1 City Rose Hill Country MRI Thomas Cup Qualify round Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Seychelles, Nigeria, Mauritius, Madagascar, Burundi, Cameroon and Eritrea

Team SA still ahead in Abuja  Brad Morgan  13 October 2003

After the weekend's exertions, South Africa had extended its lead at the All Africa Games, boosting its medal haul to 90 in total, made up of 39 gold, 27 silver and 24 bronze medals. Nigeria, in second place, had closed the gap, but with 60 medals in total and 26 golds, was still some way back.
But with the focus shifting to athletics in the final week of competition, Team SA will have its work cut out to maintain its lead.
The host country was boosted by strong performances in powerlifting, wrestling, badminton and table tennis, but South Africa excelled in swimming and gymnastics, with South Africa's women totally dominating in the pool.
Egypt too continues to perform well. Although the North Africans have won fewer gold medals than Nigeria, they are ahead of the West Africans in terms of total medals won. In 1999 they were second behind South Africa, and in 1995 they won the same number of medals as the South Africans, but picked up fewer gold and silver medals.
So expect Egypt to finish strongly and push South Africa and Nigeria hard for first and second spot.
Badminton success, soccer upset
South African badminton players also showed up well. Michelle Edwards and Chantelle Botts won the women's doubles, while Edwards finished runner-up in the singles event. Edwards won a further silver medal in the final of the mixed doubles with Stewart Carson, while the title went to another South African pair, Chris Dednam and Antionette Uys.
Dednam also enjoyed success in the men's singles, picking up bronze. He teamed with Johan Kleingeld to win bronze in the doubles too. Antoinette Uys and Marike Daubern also took bronze in the women's doubles.