Greece International

The Greece International or Hellas International in badminton is an international open held in Athens, Greece since 2000 and are thereby one of the most recent international championships in Europe. In 2005, the tournament then upgraded to two star badminton event, the World Grand Prix with the total prize money $50,000. The tournament was held in Thessaloniki, and draws more than 120 players from 22 countries.[1][2] In 2006, the tournament was known as Hellas International, and in season 2007/2008 it was introduced again in the European circuit as an BWF International Series with the total pursue $5,000.[3][4]

Previous winners

The table below gives an overview of the winners at the tournament.[5]

Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
2000 Boris Kessov Petya Nedelcheva Luben Panov
Jassen Borissov
Petya Nedelcheva
Diana Koleva
Slantchezar Tzankov
Petya Nedelcheva
2001 Theodoros Velkos Diana Dimova Georgi Petrov
Yulian Hristov
Chrisa Georgali
Christina Mavromatidou
Yulian Hristov
Diana Dimova
2002 Georgi Petrov Petya Nedelcheva Georgi Petrov
Konstantin Dobrev
Petya Nedelcheva
Neli Boteva
Konstantin Dobrev
Petya Nedelcheva
2003 Conrad Hückstädt Florentina Petre Florentina Petre
Alexandra Olariu
Yulian Hristov
Diana Dimova
2004 No competition
2005 Niels Christian Kaldau Xu Huaiwen Anthony Clark
Robert Blair
Gail Emms
Donna Kellogg
Anthony Clark
Donna Kellogg
2006 Georgi Petrov Hui Ding Blagovest Kisiov
Georgi Petrov
Atu Rosalina
Claudia Vogelgsan
Giovanni Traina
Hui Ding
2007 Marc Zwiebler Petya Nedelcheva Goh Ying Jin
Au Kok Leong
Diana Dimova
Petya Nedelcheva
Mads Pieler Kolding
Line Damkjaer Kruse
2008 Hsieh Yu-hsin Hung Shih-han Chien Yu-hsun
Lin Yen-jui
Maria Helsbol
Anne Skelbaek
Chen Hung-ling
Hsieh Pei-chen
2009
2012
No competition
2013 Ramdan Misbun Linda Zechiri Nikolaj Nikolaenko
Nikolai Ukk
Cemre Fere
Neslihan Kilic
Rene Mattisson
Tilde Iversen
2014 Kim Bruun Mathias Christiansen
David Daugard
Ozge Bayrak
Neslihan Yigit
Sam Magee
Chloe Magee
2015 Fabian Roth Fontaine Chapman Milosz Bochat
Pawel Pietryja
Steffi Annys
Flore Vandenhoucke
Ilya Zdanov
Tatjana Bibik
2016 Ivan Rusev Mariya Mitsova Daniel Nikolov
Ivan Rusev
Mariya Mitsova
Petya Nedelcheva
Lilian Mihaylov
Petya Nedelcheva
2017 Kim Bruun Aliye Demirbağ Ekaterina Kut
Daria Serebriakova
Osman Uyhan
Aliye Demirbağ
2018 Toma Junior Popov Porntip Buranaprasertsuk Porntip Buranaprasertsuk
Krestina Silich
Dimitar Yanakiev
Mariya Mitsova
2019 Lars Schänzler Mariya Mitsova Miłosz Bochat
Paweł Śmiłowski
Zehra Erdem
İlayda Nur Özelgül
Alex Vlaar
Mariya Mitsova

Performances by nation

Top Nations
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1  Bulgaria 4 8 8 4 7 31
2  Denmark 3 1 1 2 7
3  Germany 4 1 0.5 5.5
4  Turkey 1 3 1 5
5  Chinese Taipei 1 1 1 1 4
 England 1 1 1 1 4
7  Russia 1 1 1 3
8  Greece 1 1 2
 Italy 1 1 2
 Malaysia 1 1 2
 Poland 2 2
 Romania 1 1 2
13  Thailand 1 0.5 1.5
14  Belgium 1 1
 France 1 1
 Ireland 1 1
17  Belarus 0.5 0.5
 Indonesia 0.5 0.5
Total 15 15 15 15 15 75

References

  1. "HELEXPO THESSALONIKI GRAND PRIX – 26 sept au 2 oct 05" (in French). masterbad. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  2. "Δύσκολη πρεμιέρα στην Θεσσαλονίκη" (in Greek). Contra.gr. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. "Hellas International 2007". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. "Badminton Europe Circuit 2007/2008 - Tournament List". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. "Greece". Badminton Europe. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 26 July 2017.


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