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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Guinness fastest badminton hit (male): 565 km/h on 14 April 2023 at the Yonex Tokyo factory. The same figure is 351.07 mph.

Also known as Satwik Rankireddy
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Published as 565 km/hPublished as 565 km/hPublished as 565 km/h

Guinness fastest badminton hit (male). Shuttle speed immediately after impact, high-speed camera, Yonex Tokyo Factory gymnasium, Soka. 565 km/h is 351.07 mph. A controlled attempt, not a match rally.

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In context

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Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

This list

Why it's so fast

A badminton smash is a whip. The arm, the wrist and the string bed accelerate a light shuttle, which then slows down almost at once because the skirt catches the air.

  1. The whip

    Speed comes from a long lever and a late snap, not from a heavy projectile. The shuttle leaves the string bed at its fastest and is already slowing.

  2. A reading at the hit

    The figure on this list is the measured speed of the smash the sources timed. It is not how fast the shuttle is still going at the other baseline.

This is how the category works. A note written for this entry appears here once it is in the database.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 565km/h351mph157m/s305knRanked figure

    Guinness fastest badminton hit (male). Shuttle speed immediately after impact, high-speed camera, Yonex Tokyo Factory gymnasium, Soka. 565 km/h is 351.07 mph. A controlled attempt, not a match rally.

    Official
    Guinness World Records (opens source in a new tab)

Reference

Specs

Player
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Record
Fastest badminton hit, male
Speed
565 km/h
Date
14 April 2023

Context

Background

Guinness records the fastest badminton hit by a man as 565 km/h, also written 351.07 mph, by Satwiksairaj Rankireddy at the Yonex factory gymnasium in Soka on 14 April 2023. The speed is the shuttle immediately after impact, from a camera shooting 40,000 frames a second. The Indian Express prints 565 km/h for that smash. The Badminton Museum prints 351 miles per hour, which is 565 km per hour, on the same day.

The attempt was a controlled record trial, not a point in a match. Guinness keeps a separate competition record, and that rally figure is not this row. 351.07 mph is the mile writing of 565 km/h, so only kilometres per hour are stored.

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