Satwik smashes Guinness world record with fastest badminton hit

Star Indian Shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has set the Guinness world record for the fastest shot by a male player in badminton, recording a mindboggling 565 kilometres per hour with his smash during the game. Satwik, who along with his partner Chirag Shetty won the Indonesia Open recently, broke a decade-long record set in May 2013 by Malaysian Tan Boon Heong, who had produced a speed of 493 kilometres per hour with his smash.

 Malaysia’s Tan Pearly set the Guinness world record for the fastest female badminton hits with a remarkable speed of 438  kilometres per hour. The world record attempts were achieved on the 14th of April this year and were verified by official judges from the Guinness world records based on the speed measurement results from that day. Satwik’s smash was conducted in a controlled environment at the Yonex factory gymnasium at Soka, Saitama in Japan.