Badminton Island Games

The Gibraltar Badminton Association has been participating in the Island Games since the 1987 Guernsey Games which were the first Games that Gibraltar sent a contingent to. This year they were quite disappointed that badminton was omitted from the Rhodes Games.

The Association's President and top local player Ivan De Haro believes that the Island Games still provides the best level of competition for local athletes and it should be the platform that local youngsters should aspire to participate and succeed in. In order to avoid a four year competition gap, Greenland decided to host the Badminton Island Games sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation.

The squad have been training throughout the past two years and have intensified their training throughout the summer. Recently they played against a visiting Royal Navy team that provided ideal competition for the squad. The team selected for these games by National Coach Robert Brooks is as follows:

In the initial group stages Gibraltar will be facing Isle of Man and Faroes. The committee and squad would like to thank the following sponsors for supporting them in these Games: