Brisbane Badminton Academy
17th Feb, 2024 - Richard Vaughan was the CEO in Ireland between 2011–2015. During this time he developed and launched a new high-performance system which was underpinned by the Badminton Ireland Academy system throughout Ireland. The initial Academy was set up at Trinity College, Dublin. Richard was the lead coach for much of this period and worked with many of Ireland’s up and coming athletes such as top world junior players Jonathan Dolan, and Nhat Nguyen, and Irish national…
17th Feb, 2024 - At the Badminton World Federation (BWF), Richard successfully managed the Olympic Solidarity-funded athletes for the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. His role was to lead the performance programmes for solidarity funded athlete in the four-year cycle to the Olympic Games, this involved developing athlete programmes, facilitating training options, tournament selection and managing relationships with Badminton Africa, National Federations, and National Olympic Committees. In addition, Richard was responsible for talent identification initiatives and coach…
17th Feb, 2024 - TWO-TIME Olympian Richard Vaughan has expressed his joy after securing a place on the executive board of badminton’s world governing body. The 45-year-old, from Llanbradach, Wales, is the Badminton World Federation’s new vice-president, succeeding João Matos of Portugal. Vaughan, who represented Great Britain in badminton at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004, was elected during the Badminton Europe Confederation Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan. He received 31 out of 43 votes and will now take up…
3rd Jan, 2023 - This year saw Badminton Europe’s Centre of Excellence celebrate its fifth birthday. Growth has been substantial, however, in the most challenging year so far, learn how the Centre was able to stay strong and now looks towards a bright future. Five years ago, when the project started, the number of players were fewer than today. Over time, numbers grew as players and federations began seeing that it is a good place to be for many of…
3rd Jan, 2023 - Richard consulted on the creation of the high-performance system in Spain through 2006–2011setting up performance centres in Granollers, and the Olympic Training Centre (CAR) in Barcelona.The training centres produced several very talented youngstersthat have helped with the rise ofSpanish badminton.The RVBA’s Chinese coach Zhu Min headed up the training centre for two years after leaving the RVBA.
