Saturday, August 6, 2011

Fastest racquet sport?

Badminton is the fastest racquet sport in the world. A shuttlecock can travel up to 200 mph. Fu Haifeng of China set the official record of the fastest badminton shuttlecock speed at about 206 mph. That's an incredible 92.1 m/s or 332 km/h.

So a badminton shuttlecock can travel faster than a Eurostar train at its maximum in-service speed of 83.3 m/s (186.4 mph).

Comparison with other sports -
  • Cricket - Fastest ball clocked at 161 km/h
  • Ice Hockey - Fastest hockey puck clocked at 191.5 km/h
  • Tennis - Fastest serve clocked at 251 km/h

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