Indian badminton player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has made history by setting a new Guinness World Record for the fastest hit by a male player in badminton. With an incredible smash speed of 565 km/h, Satwik has surpassed the previous record held by Malaysia’s Tan Boon Heong since May 2013, who recorded a speed of 493 km/h. This achievement comes shortly after Satwik and his partner Chirag Shetty’s victory at the Indonesia Open Super 1000.
In addition to breaking the badminton record, Satwik’s smash speed even exceeded the top speed of a Formula 1 car, which stands at 372.6 km/h. On the female side, Malaysia’s Tan Pearly set the Guinness world record for the fastest female badminton hit with an impressive speed of 438 km/h.
Sports equipment manufacturing company Yonex expressed its pride in announcing that its athletes, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Tan Pearly, had set these new Guinness world records for the fastest male and female badminton hits. It should be noted that this record-breaking achievement comes more than a decade after the previous record was set in 2013.
The world record attempts were conducted on April 14, 2023, and were verified by official judges from the Guinness World Records based on the speed measurements taken on that day. Satwik’s record-breaking smash took place in a controlled environment at the Yonex factory gymnasium in Soka, Saitama, Japan.
