THOMAS CUP

• Recently, India’s men’s badminton team won the Thomas Cup title for the first time ever.
• India have defeated the 14-time champions Indonesia. The tournament was held in Bangkok (Thailand).

Thomas Cup

• Thomas Cup, trophy signifies the world supremacy in the sport of badminton.
• It is a 16-nation team event.
• The cup was donated in 1939 by Sir George Thomas for a series of men’s international team competitions to be managed by the International Badminton Federation (IBF), of which Thomas was then president.
• The first tournament was held in 1948–49 and won by Malaya.
• Thomas and Uber Cup is the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men and women’s national teams.
• In the tournament’s seven-decade-long history, the championship title has changed hands only among five nations – China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and Denmark.
• With its win, India became only the sixth country ever to break into this elite club.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT