BWF Para-Badminton World Championships 2017

Referees & Technical Delegates team

BWF Para-Badminton World Championships

Umpire

Para badminton

Technical officials are central to controlling the game of badminton on-court and ensuring fair match play in accordance with the Laws of Badminton and the various competition regulations.

Ensuring a high standard of officiating at international competitions is a key goal of the BWF. Training and development of technical officials is an important part of maintaining consistently high standards of officiating.

The BWF appoints technical officials to all BWF Para badminton events.

In Para badminton, technical officials can be categorised as Referee, Technical Delegate, Umpires, Line Judges as well as Classifiers.

The BWF is responsible for:

  • Supporting the training and development of technical officials.
  • Regularly assessing and reviewing the performance of technical officials at international tournaments.
  • Managing the qualification and certification system for BWF Technical Officials.

Para-Badminton Referees

Para-Badminton Technical Delegates

Heng Ah Neoh
Malaysia

Guenter Kluetzke
Germany

Barbara Fryer
Switzerland

Teo Kian Joo
Malaysia

Enrique Charadan
Cuba

Enrique Charadan
Cuba

Jeff Bell
Canada

Jeff Bell
Canada

Carmen Martinez
Spain

Carmen Martinez
Spain

Heather Crump
England

Stefan Fuerstenau
Germany

Pipat Chantarapaichit
Thailand

Herbert Ott
Uganda

Jean-Louis Kelhoffner
France

Kristil Tan
Malaysia

Federico Valdez
Peru

Liu Qian
China