Arab Badminton Championships Explained

The Arab Badminton Championships is a regional badminton tournament organized by the Arab Badminton Federation (ABF) to crown the best badminton players and teams in the Arab world. The inaugural edition of the championships was hosted in 1996 in Damascus, Syria.^{[1] [2]} Syria also hosted the second edition of the championships in 1998.^[3]

The first four editions of the championships featured only four events, the events being men's singles, women's singles, the men's team event and the women's team event.^[4] Doubles events were later introduced in the fifth edition of the championships hosted in Amman, Jordan.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Nations participating

• (from 1996)
• (from 1996)
• (from 1996)
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• (from 1996)
• (from 2000)
• (from 2000)
• (from 2002)
• (from 2004)
• (from 2009)
• (from 2009)
• (from 2017)
• (from 2017)
• (from 2017)
• (from 2021)
• (from 2024)
• (from 2024)
• (from 2024)

Championships

Year Number Host City Host Country Events 1996 1 Damascus 4 1998 2 Damascus 2000 3 Beirut 2001 4 Casablanca - 2002 4 Damascus 4 2004 5 Amman 7 2008 6 Casablanca align="center" - 2009 6 Amman 7 2011 7 Aqaba 2017 8 Tunis 2021 9 Hamad Town 5 2024 10 Riyadh

Past winners

Individual event

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1996			Not held
1998
2000	Ismat Khalil	Eva Katrib
2001	Cancelled
2002	Tareq Shalhoum	Hadil Kareem	Not held
2004	Bassel Al-Durrah		Bassel Al-Durrah Tareq Shalhoum	Eva Katrib Hadil Kareem	Tareq Shalhoum Hadil Kareem
2009	Ammar Awad		Bassel Al-Durrah Nawras Abdul Wahid	Bushra Muhawesh Hadil Kareem	Bassel Al-Durrah Hadil Kareem
2011	Ammar Awad	Sanaa Mahmoud	Ammar Awad Mohammad Saleh	Hadil Kareem Sanaa Mahmoud	Jehad Kareem Hadil Kareem
2017	Youcef Sabri Medel	Halla Bouksani	Adnan Ebrahim Jaffar Ebrahim	Halla Bouksani Yasmina Chibah	Youcef Sabri Medel Ferd Houda
2021	Adnan Ebrahim	Domou Amro	Koceila Mammeri Youcef Sabri Medel	Domou Amro Marah Omar	Adham Hatem Elgamal Doha Hany
2024		Nour Ahmed Youssri	Sifeddine Larbaoui Youcef Sabri Medel	Yasmina Chibah Linda Mazri	Bahaedeen Ahmad Alshannik Domou Amro

Team event

Year	Country	Venue	Men's team				Women's team
			Champion	Runner-up	Bronze		Champion	Runner-up	Bronze
1996		Damascus
1998		Damascus
2000		Beirut
2001		Casablanca	Cancelled				Cancelled
2002		Damascus
2004		Amman
2008		Casablanca	Cancelled				Cancelled
2009		Amman
2011		Aqaba
2017		Tunis
2021		Hamad Town	Not held				Not held
2024		Riyadh

Junior results

Team event (U19)

Year	Country	Venue	Men's team				Women's team
			Champion	Runner-up	Bronze		Champion	Runner-up	Bronze
2003		Cairo
2004		Casablanca	Not held				Not held
2005		Amman
2007		Tartous
2009		Damascus
2016		Algiers
2022		Shuwaikh	Not held				Not held

Notes and References

1. Web site: الريشة الطائرة في لبنان . 2024-01-15 . www.abdogedeon.com.
2. Web site: 2021-06-18 . تاريخ الريشة الطائرة في البحرين - . 2024-01-15 . en-GB.
3. Web site: منتديات كووورة . 2024-01-15 . forum.kooora.com.
4. Web site: LEBANESE BADMINTON ACTIVITIES . 2024-01-15 . www.abdogedeon.com.
5. Web site: استعداداً للبطولة الخامسة للريشة الطائرة: منتخبنا الوطني يدخل معسكرا تدريبيا مغلقا . 2024-01-15 . جريدة الدستور الاردنية . ar.
6. Web site: بعد النجاح في استضافة البطولة العربية للريشة الطائرة * كربسيان: الاردن ينظم بطولة سايتلايت عام 2005 . 2024-01-15 . جريدة الدستور الاردنية . ar.
7. Web site: برعاية الامير فيصل بن الحسين: البطولة العربية الخامسة للريشة الطائرة تفتتح اليوم . 2024-01-15 . جريدة الدستور الاردنية . ar.