The Wrap: VICTOR Badminton Oceania Championships 2019
Badminton Victoria congratulates the Australian Open and Junior Badminton Teams on winning their respective Mixed Team Championships at the VICTOR Badminton Oceania Championships 2019 and Whyte Trophy match against New Zealand last week. We also congratulate all of our Victorian Shuttlers who competed in the individual events and snapped a few title-wins as well:
Sawan Serasinghe / Eric Vuong - Men's Doubles Winner
Gronya Somerville (with Setyana Mapasa (NSW)) - Women's Doubles Winner
Gronya Somerville (with Simon Leung (QLD)) - Mixed Doubles Winner
Kaitlyn Ea (with Angela Yu (QLD)) - Junior Women's Doubles Winner
Yingzi "Jenny" Jiang - Women's Singles Runner-Up
Yingzi "Jenny" Jiang / Louisa Ma - Women's Doubles Runners-Up
Sawan Serasinghe (with Lee Yen Khoo (SA)) - Mixed Doubles Runners-Up
Otto Zhao (with Ricky Tang (NSW)) - Junior Men's Doubles Runners-Up
Louisa Ma - Women's Singles Semi-Finalist
Jacob Schueler and Felix Wang - Men's Doubles Semi-Finalists
Marcus Kong - Junior Men's Singles Semi-Finalist
Dimitri Han / Daniel Hocking - Junior Men's Doubles Semi-Finalists
Marcus Kong (with Jack Yu (QLD)) - Junior Men's Doubles Semi-Finalists
With 4 championships packed in 1 week of elite badminton action, Badminton Victoria has been honoured to co-host with Badminton Oceania a number of significant highlights in the history of the Oceania Championships, including:
The largest amount of entries for both junior and open events in the history of the Badminton Oceania Championships
The largest range of country representation in the history of the Badminton Oceania Championships (9 countries: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga)
The most teams entered in the history of the Badminton Oceania Championships
Debut of teams and players from Samoa competing at the Badminton Oceania Championships
Wishing all the players, coaches and managers - from around Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga on their success for the rest of the year!
Full results can be found here.
ROLL THE CREDITS...
A big thank you to everyone from our badminton community who came out to watch or streamed the action online. We would also like to thank everyone who purchased a raffle ticket to win a car, as part of our fundraising campaign to support our Victorian Junior State Teams and in partnership with Knox Mitsubishi. See who won the car here.
We would also like to acknowledge our major sponsors and supporters who have helped make the event a successful one:
Badminton Oceania
Badminton Australia
Badminton World Federation
VICTOR SPORT GLOBAL
OVO Mobile
Knox Mitsubishi
Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
State Government of Victoria
SONIQ and Cybercast
Pinakin Godse - Sports Physiotherapist
Melbourne Parkview Hotel
Quest St Kilda Bayside
And to a BIG thank you to our event team - the Referees, Umpires, Line Judges, Volunteers, Catering, Transport, Medical, Media, Match Control and Event Staff. Your support has been critical in making the event great. We have had positive feedback from the players, officials and our co-host Badminton Oceania.
Whether you are from the badminton community or not, or were present for one shift or every day, we are deeply appreciative of your time and efforts. Check out the full album of photos of our event team on Facebook. Feel free to download and share photos as you wish.
EVENT PERSONNEL
Event Director (Open Championships)
Craig Haydock (Badminton Victoria)
Event Director (Junior Championships)
Olivia Na (Badminton Victoria)
Referee (Open Championships)
Stephanie Ho (NCL)
Deputy Referee (Open Championships)
Lynne Nixey / Julie Carrel (NZL)
Referee (Junior Championships)
Sandra David (AUS)
Deputy Referee (Junior Championships)
Janice Cudby (NZL)
Line Judge Manager
Kay Coady (AUS)
Live-Streaming and Communications Manager
Tom Leonard (Badminton Oceania)
Badminton Victoria Communications Team - Olivia Na, Kah Meng Ho, Noryan Jimenez
BADMINTON OCEANIA STAFF
Secretary General
Julie Carrel
Administration Manager
Lynne Nixey
Badminton Oceania Communications Manager
Tom Leonard
Badminton Oceania Coaching and Development Manager
Robbie Thackham
Badminton Oceania Coaching and Development Officer
Ian Bridge
UMPIRES
BWF Certified
Susan Taylor (AUS)
Trish Gubb (NZL)
Jiten Bhatt (AUS)
Oceania Certificated
Justin Zuo (NZL)
David Turner (AUS)
Jean-Phillipe Berges (NZL)
Oceania Accredited
Kathryn Blencowe (AUS)
Joshua Ho (AUS)
Kelven Tsui (NZL)
Greg Pitcher (NZL)
Cynthia Tam (AUS)
National Certificated
Sheehan Lim (AUS)
Kevin Phillips (AUS)
Margaret Beakley (AUS)
Kenny Yew (AUS)
Richard Wong (AUS)
National Accredited
Jingran Liu (AUS)
Ravi Nandan (AUS)
Kah Seng Ong (AUS)
Lokendra Solanki (AUS)
David Cromie (AUS)
Nalin Nanayakkara (AUS)
Ru-wen Clarnette (AUS)
LINE JUDGES
Santana Abdullah Brideen Allen Gina Andrews Colin Andrews Aldo Auleebux Rajini Balasuriya Nawan Banks Anne Chiodo Greg Clarnette Kay Coady Barbara Davie Val Dorling Pauline Eldred Valerie Everest Theda Faulwetter Lodi Francesconi Lesley French Margaret Galley Ron Gray Terry Hammond Vanda Hammond Janne Hardwick Alvern Ho Rocky Jiang Mary Jones Steve Li Matt Margerejo Pauline Martin Myrna Mizzi Rajeev Nair Yen Tien Ng Carol Perez Madhu Pokhrel Teresa Roberts Michelle Rowsell Geoff Skews Anneli Thuringer Duke Trench Thiedeman Bettina Williams Teya Wu
VOLUNTEERS
Match Control
Gillian Patmore
Peter Roberts
Peter Thatcher
Shuttle Control
Peter Brown
Gary Grierson
Player Marshall
Carolyn Billington
First Aid and Medic
Pinakin Godse
Catering
Bev Robotham
Eden Turner
Live Stream Data Entry
Joshua Ang Kiara Billington
Laura Billington
Stephanie Chung
Pat Daw Heng Ea Richi Gamage
Kah Meng Ho Noryan Jimenez Rishabh Kothari Kacie La Michelle Lac Jack Lee Malcolm Liu Anvesh Makey Victoria Na Ewan Scott Matt Simpson Lee Taylor Ryan Tong Duke Trench-Thiedeman Hee-Young Yang
Court Maintenance
Joshua Ang Kiara Billington Laura Billington Peter Brown Stephanie Chung Richi Gamage Kacie La