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2014 BWF World Championships

badminton championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ799592 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2014 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 25 to 31 August 2014 at the Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Host city selection

Copenhagen and Macau submitted bids for this of championships. Both cities also bid for the 2013 edition, which was later won by Guangzhou. On 9 December 2011, Badminton World Federation decided to award the championships to Copenhagen during a meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Draw

The draw was held on 11 August 2014 at the Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Schedule

All five events started on the first day and concluded with the final on the last day.

All times are local (UTC+2).

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“2014 BWF World Championships” enters the record as badminton championships. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Championships and badminton can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Championships and badminton.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q799592. Authority coordinates are 55.676, 12.569. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2013 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014 BWF World Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.