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Badminton Pan American Confederation

The Badminton Pan American Confederation (BPAC) is the governing body of badminton in the Americas and is recognized as such by the World Badminton Federation. It was founded in 1976 and is currently composed by 37 member associations.

BPAC was founded in the city of Mexico in 1976 and nominated Victor Jaramillo (MEX) as President until an oficial election was scheduled to take place at the first Pan Am Championships the following year.

The first Pan Am Badminton Championship was held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, in April 1977.

Mr. Victor Jaramillo was confirmed as President and stayed in this charge until 1981. During these five years, Pan American Championships were held in Canada, Peru, Mexico, and USA. As far as Pan Am Junior Championships, they were held in Mexico, Canada, USA and Peru.

From 1981 to 1987, there was no contest until November 1987 when the V Pan Am Championships was held in Lima, Peru.

Outstanding efforts made by Helen Baxter (CAN) trying to reactivate the Badminton Pan Am Confederation since 1982 and also help on the part of the Badminton Peru National Commission President, Mr. José Andrés Bellido, Badminton Pan Am, once again, became an active member of the Internacional Badminton Federation in 1987.

During the V Badminton Pan Am Championships, held in Lima-Peru, November 1987, there was a Congress to re-establish Pan Am Badminton Confederation.

At the Thomas and Uber Cup preliminaries in Pan Am Continent in February 1988, Pierre Blouin was elected President.

Badminton was included at Olympic Games program in Barcelona 1992 and Para-Badminton, in Tokio 2020.

Badminton Pan Am Presidents

1976 – 1981 Victor Jaramillo Villalobos MEX
1988 – 1990 Pierre Blouin CAN
1990 – 1995 Elizabeth de Erichsen GUA
1995 – 2003 Federico Valdez PER
2003 – 2005 Joseph Mervyn Gordon BAR
2005 – 2015 Gustavo Salazar PER
2015 – 2023 Vishu Tolan JAM
2023 – Armando Bruni ESA