1979 WBF World Championships
The Badminton World Championship 1979 took place in mid-June 1979 in Hangzhou, China, instead. It was the second World Cup of the smaller Badminton World Federation WBF, which, however, belonged to China with one of the most important countries of the badminton sport. The tradition -rich IBF World Association had in 1977 directed his first title fights. Skip to second World Cup of the IBF 1980, the WBF united with the IBF under their roof.