Winter Badminton

The programme of the KIELCE SPORT - ZIMA exhibition encompasses School-Age Youth Games in Badminton and the Junior-High School Olympics. The tournament brings together the best Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship’s schools.

The programme is complemented with Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship Police Staff Tournament accompanied with games played by well known political and cultural personalities, self-government members and all those who want to try their hand at badminton.

Badminton is a very old game. Among the remains of the ancient Aztec and Chinese civilisations we can find pictures presenting a game which looks just like badminton. This serves as the proof that this active form pastime, though in different variations has been known for a few thousand years. The Badminton House owned by the VIII duke of Beaufort has given its name to the sport; as early as 1870 it was the venue for the first public presentation of the game in which a shuttlecock made of cork and feathers was used.

Badminton stated its career at the Summer Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul where it was a demonstration game. Badminton had soon become fashionable and thus it became the official Summer Olympic sport in 1992 in Barcelona.