European Badminton Championships

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The European Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe (BE). It represents the highest level of continental competition in European badminton, and the winners of each event are recognised as the European champions.

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History

The first of these competitions was held in 1968. The competition was held once every two years to determine the best badminton players in Europe. European Mixed Team Badminton Championships usually started prior to the individual championships until it was split in 2009. From 2017 on the European badminton championship is held annually except for the year with European Games - the badminton program at those Games will operate as that years Championships. Since 2008, it is being graded as a Grand Prix Gold tournament by the Badminton World Federation. [1] [2]

Championships

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the European Championships. On 15 January 2008, Manchester of England won the bid to stage the 2010 event which saw the separation the team event into different championships. [3] Starting from 2017, the championship will be an annual event except for the year with European Games. The 2020 edition in Kyiv, Ukraine, had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic and the hosting rights of the 2021 edition was reallocated to Ukraine again. [4] The number in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country has hosted the championships.

YearNumberHost CityEvents
1968 1 Bochum, West Germany (1)5
1970 2 Port Talbot, Wales (1)
1972 3 Karlskrona, Sweden (1)6
1974 4 Vienna, Austria (1)
1976 5 Dublin, Ireland (1)
1978 6 Preston, England (1)
1980 7 Groningen, Netherlands (1)
1982 8 Böblingen, West Germany (1)
1984 9 Preston, England (2)
1986 10 Uppsala, Sweden (1)
1988 11 Kristiansand, Norway (1)
1990 12 Moscow, Soviet Union (1)
1992 13 Glasgow, Scotland (1)
1994 14 Den Bosch, Netherlands (1)
1996 15 Herning, Denmark (1)
1998 16 Sofia, Bulgaria (1)
YearNumberHost CityEvents
2000 17 Glasgow, Scotland (2)6
2002 18 Malmö, Sweden (1)
2004 19 Geneva, Switzerland (1)
2006 20 Den Bosch, Netherlands (2)
2008 21 Herning, Denmark (2)5
2010 22 Manchester, England (1)
2012 23 Karlskrona, Sweden (2)
2014 24 Kazan, Russia (1)
2016 25 La Roche-sur-Yon, France (1)
2017 26 Kolding, Denmark (1)
2018 27 Huelva, Spain (1)
2021 28 Kyiv, Ukraine (1) [lower-alpha 1]
2022 29 Madrid, Spain (1)
2024 30 Saarbrücken, Germany (1)
2025 31 TBD
2026 32 Spain
  1. This tournament, originally to be played from 21 to 26 April 2020, was later postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. [5]

Past winners

Individual events (1968–present)

YearMen's singlesWomen's singlesMen's doublesWomen's doublesMixed doubles
1968 Flag of Sweden.svg Sture Johnsson Flag of Germany.svg Irmgard Latz Flag of England.svg David Eddy
Flag of England.svg Roger Powell
Flag of England.svg Margaret Boxall
Flag of England.svg Susan Whetnall
Flag of England.svg Tony Jordan
Flag of England.svg Susan Whetnall
1970 Flag of Sweden.svg Eva Twedberg Flag of Denmark.svg Elo Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg Per Walsøe
Flag of England.svg David Eddy
Flag of England.svg Susan Whetnall
1972 Flag of Germany.svg Wolfgang Bochow Flag of England.svg Margaret Beck Flag of Germany.svg Willi Braun
Flag of Germany.svg Roland Maywald
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
Flag of England.svg Judy Hashman
Flag of England.svg Derek Talbot
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
1974 Flag of Sweden.svg Sture Johnsson Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks Flag of England.svg Margaret Beck
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
1976 Flag of Denmark.svg Flemming Delfs Flag of England.svg Ray Stevens
Flag of England.svg Mike Tredgett
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
Flag of England.svg Susan Whetnall
1978 Flag of Denmark.svg Lene Køppen Flag of England.svg Nora Perry
Flag of England.svg Anne Statt
Flag of England.svg Mike Tredgett
Flag of England.svg Nora Perry
1980 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Liselotte Blumer Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Karlsson
Flag of Sweden.svg Claes Nordin
Flag of England.svg Nora Perry
Flag of England.svg Jane Webster
1982 Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Peter Nierhoff Flag of Denmark.svg Lene Køppen Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Karlsson
Flag of Sweden.svg Thomas Kihlström
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
Flag of England.svg Gillian Clark
Flag of England.svg Martin Dew
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks
1984 Flag of Denmark.svg Morten Frost Flag of England.svg Helen Troke Flag of England.svg Martin Dew
Flag of England.svg Mike Tredgett
Flag of England.svg Karen Chapman
Flag of England.svg Gillian Clark
1986 Flag of Denmark.svg Steen Fladberg
Flag of Denmark.svg Jesper Helledie
Flag of England.svg Gillian Clark
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gowers
1988 Flag of England.svg Darren Hall Flag of Denmark.svg Kirsten Larsen Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Peter Nierhoff
Flag of Denmark.svg Michael Kjeldsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Dorte Kjær
Flag of Denmark.svg Nettie Nielsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Steen Fladberg
Flag of England.svg Gillian Clark
1990 Flag of England.svg Steve Baddeley Flag of Denmark.svg Pernille Nedergaard Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Paulsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Henrik Svarrer
Flag of Denmark.svg Jon Holst-Christensen
Flag of Denmark.svg Grete Mogensen
1992 Flag of Denmark.svg Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen Flag of Denmark.svg Jon Holst-Christensen
Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Lund
Flag of Sweden.svg Lim Xiaoqing
Flag of Sweden.svg Christine Magnusson
Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Lund
Flag of Denmark.svg Pernille Dupont
1994 Flag of Sweden.svg Lim Xiaoqing Flag of England.svg Simon Archer
Flag of England.svg Chris Hunt
Flag of Denmark.svg Michael Søgaard
Flag of Sweden.svg Catrine Bengtsson
1996 Flag of Denmark.svg Camilla Martin Flag of Denmark.svg Jon Holst-Christensen
Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Lund
Flag of Denmark.svg Lisbeth Stuer-Lauridsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Marlene Thomsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Michael Søgaard
Flag of Denmark.svg Rikke Olsen
1998 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Gade Flag of England.svg Simon Archer
Flag of England.svg Chris Hunt
Flag of Denmark.svg Rikke Olsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Marlene Thomsen
2000 Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Jesper Larsen
Flag of England.svg Donna Kellogg
Flag of England.svg Joanne Goode
2002 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Rasmussen Flag of the Netherlands.svg Yao Jie Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Martin Lundgaard Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg Jane F. Bramsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Ann-Lou Jørgensen
Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Mette Schjoldager
2004 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Gade Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mia Audina Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mia Audina
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Lotte Bruil-Jonathans
Flag of England.svg Nathan Robertson
Flag of England.svg Gail Emms
2006 Flag of Germany.svg Xu Huaiwen Flag of England.svg Gail Emms
Flag of England.svg Donna Kellogg
Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Laybourn
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl
2008 Flag of Denmark.svg Kenneth Jonassen Flag of Denmark.svg Lars Paaske
Flag of Denmark.svg Jonas Rasmussen
Flag of Denmark.svg Lena Frier Kristiansen
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Flag of England.svg Anthony Clark
Flag of England.svg Donna Kellogg
2010 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Gade Flag of Denmark.svg Tine Baun Flag of Russia.svg Valeria Sorokina
Flag of Russia.svg Nina Vislova
Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Laybourn
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl
2012 Flag of Germany.svg Marc Zwiebler Flag of Denmark.svg Mathias Boe
Flag of Denmark.svg Carsten Mogensen
Flag of Denmark.svg Christinna Pedersen
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Flag of Poland.svg Robert Mateusiak
Flag of Poland.svg Nadieżda Zięba
2014 Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Ø. Jørgensen Flag of Spain.svg Carolina Marín Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Ivanov
Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Sozonov
Flag of Denmark.svg Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Flag of Denmark.svg Christinna Pedersen
2016 Flag of Denmark.svg Viktor Axelsen Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Conrad-Petersen
Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Pieler Kolding
2017 Flag of England.svg Rajiv Ouseph Flag of Denmark.svg Mathias Boe
Flag of Denmark.svg Carsten Mogensen
Flag of England.svg Chris Adcock
Flag of England.svg Gabby Adcock
2018 Flag of Denmark.svg Viktor Axelsen Flag of Denmark.svg Kim Astrup
Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Gabriela Stoeva
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stefani Stoeva
2021 Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Antonsen Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Ivanov
Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Sozonov
Flag of Russia.svg Rodion Alimov
Flag of Russia.svg Alina Davletova
2022 Flag of Denmark.svg Viktor Axelsen Flag of Germany.svg Mark Lamsfuß
Flag of Germany.svg Marvin Seidel
Flag of Germany.svg Mark Lamsfuß
Flag of Germany.svg Isabel Lohau
2024 Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Antonsen Flag of Denmark.svg Kim Astrup
Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Flag of France.svg Margot Lambert
Flag of France.svg Anne Tran
Flag of France.svg Thom Gicquel
Flag of France.svg Delphine Delrue

Mixed team event (1972–2006)

YearMixed team
1972Flag of England.svg  England
1974
1976Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
1978Flag of England.svg  England
1980
1982
1984
1986Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
1988
1990
1992Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
1994
1996Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006

Performances by nation

As of finals of the 2024 edition
PosNationMSWSMDWDXDTotal
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 221017101170
2Flag of England.svg  England 3561214.540.5
3Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 32220.59.5
4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 233019
5Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 070007
6Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 002114
7Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 000303
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 020103
9Flag of France.svg  France 000112
10Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 000011
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 010001
Total3030303030150

Medal count

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 817197249
2Flag of England.svg  England 454062147
3Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 12194879
4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 9112949
5Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 7007
6Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 441119
7Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 383445
8Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3328
9Flag of France.svg  France 24612
10Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 12710
11Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 1012
12Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 05813
13Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 0134
14Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 0055
15Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 0022
16Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 0011
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 0011
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 0011
Totals (18 entries)168168318654

*Russian medals included medals won by the USSR and the CIS *German medals included medals won by West Germany

Successful players

Below is the list of the most ever successful players in the European Badminton Championships:

NameMSWSMDWDXDTotal
Flag of England.svg Gillian Gilks 24612
Flag of Denmark.svg Kamilla Rytter Juhl 527
Flag of Spain.svg Carolina Marín 77
Flag of Denmark.svg Christinna Pedersen 426
Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Gade 55
Flag of England.svg Susan Whetnall 325
Flag of England.svg Mike Tredgett 325
Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen 415
Flag of England.svg Nora Perry 224
Flag of England.svg Gillian Clark 314
Flag of England.svg Martin Dew 134
Flag of Denmark.svg Michael Søgaard 44
Flag of Denmark.svg Rikke Olsen 134

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