Highest governing body | Fédération Internationale de Racketlon |
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First played | 1980s |
Characteristics | |
Contact | No |
Team members | Single or doubles |
Type | Racket sport |
Equipment | Table tennis racket, celluloid, badminton racket, shuttlecock, squash racket, squash ball, tennis racket, tennis ball |
Presence | |
Olympic | none |
Racketlon is a combination sport in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis. It originated in Finland and Sweden[1] and was modeled on other combination sports like the triathlon and decathlon.