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Hellas International

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The Hellas International or Greece 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

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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 Bulgaria Boris Kesov Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva Bulgaria Yasen Borisov
Bulgaria Luben Panov
Bulgaria Diana Koleva
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
Bulgaria Slantchezar Tzankov
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
2001 Greece Theodoros Velkos Bulgaria Diana Dimova Bulgaria Yulian Hristov
Bulgaria Georgi Petrov
Greece Chrisa Georgali
Greece Christina Mavromatidou
Bulgaria Yulian Hristov
Bulgaria Diana Dimova
2002 Bulgaria Georgi Petrov Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva Bulgaria Konstantin Dobrev
Bulgaria Georgi Petrov
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
Bulgaria Neli Boteva
Bulgaria Konstantin Dobrev
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
2003 Germany Conrad Hückstädt Romania Florentina Petre Romania Alexandra Olariu
Romania Florentina Petre
Bulgaria Yulian Hristov
Bulgaria Diana Dimova
2004 No competition
2005 Denmark Niels Christian Kaldau Germany Huaiwen Xu England Robert Blair
England Anthony Clark
England Gail Emms
England Donna Kellogg
England Anthony Clark
England Donna Kellogg
2006 Bulgaria Georgi Petrov Italy Hui Ding Bulgaria Blagovest Kisyov
Bulgaria Georgi Petrov
Indonesia Atu Rosalina
Germany Claudia Vogelgsang
Italy Giovanni Traina
Italy Hui Ding
2007 Germany Marc Zwiebler Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva Malaysia Au Kok Leong
Malaysia Goh Ying Jin
Bulgaria Diana Dimova
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
Denmark Mads Pieler Kolding
Denmark Line Damkjær Kruse
2008 Chinese Taipei Hsieh Yu-hsin Chinese Taipei Hung Shih-han Chinese Taipei Chien Yu-hsun
Chinese Taipei Lin Yen-jui
Denmark Maria Helsbøl
Denmark Anne Skelbæk
Chinese Taipei Chen Hung-ling
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Pei-chen
2009
2012
No competition
2013 Malaysia Misbun Ramdan Misbun Bulgaria Linda Zetchiri Russia Nikolaj Nikolaenko
Russia Nikolai Ukk
Turkey Cemre Fere
Turkey Neslihan Kılıç
Denmark René Mattisson
Denmark Tilde Iversen
2014 Denmark Kim Bruun Denmark Mathias Christiansen
Denmark David Daugaard
Turkey Özge Bayrak
Turkey Neslihan Yiğit
Republic of Ireland Sam Magee
Republic of Ireland Chloe Magee
2015 Germany Fabian Roth England Fontaine Chapman Poland Miłosz Bochat
Poland Paweł Pietryja
Belgium Steffi Annys
Belgium Flore Vandenhoucke
Russia Ilya Zhdanov
Russia Tatjana Bibik
2016 Bulgaria Ivan Rusev Bulgaria Mariya Mitsova Bulgaria Daniel Nikolov
Bulgaria Ivan Rusev
Bulgaria Mariya Mitsova
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
Bulgaria Lilian Mihaylov
Bulgaria Petya Nedelcheva
2017 Denmark Kim Bruun Turkey Aliye Demirbağ Russia Ekaterina Kut
Russia Daria Serebriakova
Turkey Osman Uyhan
Turkey Aliye Demirbağ
2018 France Toma Junior Popov Thailand Porntip Buranaprasertsuk Thailand Porntip Buranaprasertsuk
Belarus Kristina Silich
Bulgaria Dimitar Yanakiev
Bulgaria Mariya Mitsova
2019 Germany Lars Schänzler Bulgaria Mariya Mitsova Poland Miłosz Bochat
Poland Paweł Śmiłowski
Turkey Zehra Erdem
Turkey İlayda Nur Özelgül
Bulgaria Alex Vlaar
Bulgaria Mariya Mitsova
2020 No competition
2021 Malaysia Lee Shun Yang England Abigail Holden Malaysia Junaidi Arif
Malaysia Muhammad Haikal
Malaysia Low Yeen Yuan
Malaysia Valeree Siow
Malaysia Yap Roy King
Malaysia Valeree Siow

Performances by nation

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Updated after the 2021 edition.

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  Malaysia 2 2 1 1 6
4  Germany 4 1 0.5 5.5
5  England 2 1 1 1 5
 Turkey 1 3 1 5
7  Chinese Taipei 1 1 1 1 4
8  Russia 1 1 1 3
9  Greece 1 1 2
 Italy 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 16 16 16 16 16 80

References

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  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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