Badminton is an Olympic sport in five modalities, and from Cali, there could be a seedbed for future participants in these world games, for example, the Corpotes club, which has already won championships in Cali, the Valley and Colombia.
Badminton is an Olympic sport in five modalities, and from Cali, there could be a seedbed for future participants in these world games, for example, the Corpotes club, which has already won championships in Cali, the Valley and Colombia.
News Cali.
Corpotes, corporation of social fabric is a club where the sport of Badminton is practiced in Cali, children and young people who train this discipline have already obtained the merit of champions in national and departmental games.
Badminton is a racket sport, and is considered the fastest in the world and has been practiced in Colombia for 20 years.
Unlike other racket sports, badminton is not played with a ball, but with a projectile called a shuttlecock or feather, which consists of a hemisphere (like a ball) surrounded at its base by feathers.
The feathered shuttlecock is the projectile used in badminton.
Badminton is an Olympic sport in five modalities: men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.
Bodies
Speed, dexterity, intelligence and the physical display to change rhythms and hit the feather shuttle with certainty are the qualities needed to be a winner.
All these qualities are held by the Corporación Para el Tejido Social club, which was born in 2016 and has managed to win great recognition.
For the year 2019 in the national games they were champions, and they repeated that title in the year 2022 but in the Junior category in a sports seed tournament.
For Alexandra Molina, president of the Club, this is “more than a sport, it is teaching them to be a better person, discipline, perseverance to achieve the objectives.”
«The idea with children is to make them fall in love with sport, so that they occupy their free time to learn values and work as a team» : corpotes
Future Competitions
The goal to work for this club is to prepare for the departmental Games, the children have a sports coach who has trained them with high demands for coordination and skill with the racket.
The team has great talents, among which Santiago Velez Paz and Josué Alexander stand out, who obtained a bronze medal in departmental games.
For Jhon Narváez, sports coach, the objective is clear: “We seek to give Badminton a sporting style, and project it into the future as an Olympic cycle sport.”
The last competition was the Valida Nacional Junior Yumbo 2023, in which the athletes participated for the first time with excellent results.
Bodies invites all those interested to learn about this sport and join the sports practices that take place in the Coliseo del Pueblo, the Poliderpotivo in the Petecuy neighborhood and the Coliseum of the Pedro Antonio Molina School in the San Luis neighborhood.
2023-06-28 22:38:43
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