The Belarus International in badminton is an international open held in Belarus since 2018 and are thereby one of the most recent international championships in Europe. [1]
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned all Belarusian players and officials from BWF events, and cancelled all BWF tournaments in Belarus. [2]
The table below gives an overview of the winners at the tournament.
| Year | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 FS |  Ade Resky Dwicahyo |  Marie Batomene | Ade Resky Dwicahyo Azmy Qowimuramadhoni |  Olga Arkhangelskaya Elizaveta Tarasova |  Robert Cybulski Wiktoria Dabczynska |
| 2019 IS |  Lei Lanxi | Wang Zhiyi | Ou Xuanyi Zhang Nan | Yu Xiaohan Zhang Shuxian | Ren Xiangyu Zhou Chaomin |
| Top Nations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total | ||
| 1 | China | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 2 | Azerbaijan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | France | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Poland | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Russia | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |||
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