Badminton

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Game

• Refinement of early games (e.g. Shuttlecock)
• Started in India
• Made popular by the British
• Named after a place called Badminton, where the game flourished

Players

• Rudy Hartono (Indonesia)
• Competitive players from Malaysia (especially Doubles)
• Saya U Yu Khin (Dean, Chair, RU Sports Council)
• Saya U Thein Lwin (EE, President, RIT Badminton)
• Maung Hla (RU, 2nd SEAP Games)
• Sagaing Kyi Nyunt (Burma, SEAP, Bronze in Asian Games)
• Sai Kham Pan (2nd in Singles, 1st in Doubles, Burma Selected)
  Star of RIT team that won Inter-Institute Trophy
• U Myint Kyi (RIT)
• Bishnu Shahi (RIT)

U Aye (M62) wrote :

Myint Tun from Prome Hall ( 1958-59) was a third year B. Arch student. He was runners up in the National Championship, was a Burma selected player in Badminton. He later joined GE. He was one of my senior colleagues at Prome Hall. He was in room 94, while I was in room 108.