Satwiksairaj Rankireddy ‘smashes’ Guinness global file with quickest badminton hits

Superstar India shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has set the Guinness global file for the quickest hit through a male participant in badminton, recording a mindboggling 565 km/h along with his wreck.

Satwik, who alongwith his spouse Chirag Shetty received the Indonesia Open Tremendous 1000 not too long ago, thus broke a decade-long file set in Might, 2013 through Malaysian Tan Boon Heong, who had produced a pace of 493 km/h (306.34 mph) along with his wreck.

Satwik’s wreck was once quicker than the highest pace of 372.6 km/h completed through a Formulation 1 automobile.

Malaysia’s Tan Pearly set the Guinness global file for the quickest feminine badminton hits with a outstanding pace of 438 km/h (about 272 mph).

“Yonex is proud to announce that Yonex badminton athletes, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND) and Tan Pearly (MAS), have set new Guinness global information identify for the quickest female and male badminton hits,” the Jap sports activities apparatus production corporate stated in a unlock.

“For the reason that earlier Guinness global information identify for the quickest badminton hit was once recorded in Might 2013, because of this Rankireddy broke the file for the primary time in additional than a decade.” The arena file makes an attempt had been completed on April 14, 2023, and had been verified through legit judges from the Guinness global information in response to the velocity dimension effects from that day.

Satwik’s wreck was once carried out in a managed surroundings on the Yonex manufacturing facility gym in Soka, Saitama, Japan.