BWF to Announce Winning Bids for 2015 Major Events

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) will announce the winning bids for its 2015 Major Events at month-end in Athens, find Greece.

BWF Member Associations and the respective candidate cities will know on Thursday 28 November, clinic | if they have been successful in winning bids for the BWF Sudirman Cup; the BWF World Championships and the BWF World Senior Championships, all to be held in 2015.

Two cities – Kunshan in China (Jiangsu province) and Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia – are vying to host the BWF World Championships in August 2015, following in the footsteps of Copenhagen, Denmark, next year.

Another Chinese city – Dongguan in Guangdong province – is bidding to stage the BWF Sudirman Cup in May 2015 while Helsingborg has been proposed by Badminton Sweden as the venue for the next BWF World Senior Championships.

BWF Secretary General, Thomas Lund said: “While Dongguan and Helsingborg are the lone bidders for the Sudirman Cup and World Seniors respectively, they still have to satisfy the Council that they are capable of hosting the tournament to the BWF’s standards and technical specifications.

“We look forward to hearing high-quality presentations from all four bids and to reaching the appropriate decision for each tournament.”