On Saturday twenty ninth March, Badminton England CEO Sue Storey, was in Serbia to rejoice some homegrown winners on the Badminton Europe Awards 2025.
Hosted in Belgrade on the BEC Congress, there was loads of British curiosity within the nominations for awards this yr.
4 miraculous pictures from 2024 had been nominated for the ‘Shot of the 12 months’ gong and our very personal Nadeem Dalvi took the trophy for a diving effort that’s virtually unattainable to explain.
Dalvi beat off competitors from Viktor Axelsen’s backhand smash and pirouette, Anders Antonsen’s left-handed improvised effort and Ben Lane’s breathtaking backward dive to win the award.
England’s Rajeev Bagga was nominated for the BEC Senior Participant of the 12 months accolade however was pipped on the submit by Scotland’s Dan Travers who obtained the award forward of fellow nominees Bagga, Carl-Johan Nybergh of Finland and Romania’s Florentina Constantinescu.
In the meantime, Badminton Wales had been nominated within the Social Media presence class, solely to lose out to YONEX All England 2025 stars Jenny and Greg Mairs and the strides they’ve taken with their Badminton Perception channel.
The superb Daniel Bethell picked up his second successive Olympic silver medal final summer time and was rightly nominated for the BEC Para-badminton Participant of the 12 months – solely to overlook out to a different worthy winner in France’s Charles Noakes, nonetheless smiling from his gold medal win in opposition to Krysten Coombs in Paris.
And Malcolm Banham was additionally recognised on the evening, profitable the Technical Official award to finish the British success in Belgrade. Congratulations to all of the award winners in 2025.
