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Anu Kristiina Nieminen is a Finnish badminton player. Born in Helsinki, Nieminen has joined the national team in 1994. She is one of the best badminton players in Finland, having won twelve times National Championships, and competed at the Summer Olympics in four consecutive times.
Ville Lång is a badminton player from Finland. He won ten consecutive Finland's National Championship men's singles titles in 2005–2014, and 3 men's doubles title in 2010, 2011, and 2017. In 2003, he won bronze at the European Junior Championships. Lång competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He announced his retirement on 31 January 2016, and received a meritorious service award from BWF. After retiring from the international competition, Lång started his coaching career first in Paris where he coached the league team Aulnay-sous-Bois after which he has been the head coach of one local club in Sweden. In 2019, he was elected as vice chairman of BWF Athletes' Commission to represent the needs and views of athletes to the BWF council and committees.
Nina Weckström is a Finnish badminton player from Helsingfors badminton klub. She won the National Championships in the women's doubles event seven times from 1999 to 2004 and 2006 partnered with Anu Weckström. In the international tournament, she won the women's singles title at the Southern Pan Am International in Miami, United States, and also the women's doubles event at the Norwegian International tournament with her sister Anu. After finishing her career in badminton, she received the scholarship by the URA Foundation. She educated Pedagogy in Copenhagen, and while she studying, she trained at the Holte Badmintonklub.
The Arctic Open, is an international open badminton tournament held in Finland since 1990. It was halted in 1994, 1995, and between 1997 and 2001. In 2013, it was held for the fourth time in the Energia Areena in Vantaa. In 2014, the second international tournament in Finland launched as Finnish International, then this tournament changed its title to Finnish Open. From 2023 onwards, this will be a BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, titled Arctic Open.
Imay Hendra is a former Indonesian badminton player, and later represented Brunei after became Brunei national coach. He won a men's doubles bronze medal at the 1991 IBF World Championships in Copenhagen with Bagus Setiadi. They won the Finnish Open together in 1990, also finished as semi-finalists at the All England and Indonesia Open in 1991. He was part of Indonesia winning team at the 1993 Asian Championships.
Neslihan Arın is a Turkish badminton player. The 178 cm (5.84 ft) tall athlete plays right-handed and is coached by Çağatay Taşdemir at Egospor club of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. She won the women's singles title at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games, 2013, 2018 Mediterranean Games and the women's doubles title at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. Arın also won the bronze medals at the 2015 European Games and at the 2021 and 2022 European Championships.
Huang Dongping is a Chinese badminton player. She is the reigning mixed doubles Olympic Champion, and was two-time mixed doubles Asian Champion winning in 2018 and 2019.
Wang Yilyu, sometimes also transliterated as Wang Yilu, Wang Yilv or Wang Yilü, is a Chinese badminton player. He is the reigning mixed doubles Olympic Champion, and was two-time mixed doubles Asian Champion winning in 2018 and 2019.
Anton Kaisti is a Finnish badminton player. He joined Finish national badminton team since 2007, then in 2014 he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel.
Eetu Antti Oskari Heino is a Finnish badminton player. He started playing badminton at his school in Pargas, then in 2006, he joined the Finnish national badminton team. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel, Switzerland.
Jenny Nyström is a Finnish badminton player, specializing in doubles play. She started playing badminton at 6 years old, then in 2009, she joined the national team.
Mathilda Lindholm is a Finnish badminton player, specializing in doubles play. She started playing badminton at 5 years old, then in 2005, she joined Finnish national badminton team.
Iikka Heino is a Finnish badminton player. In 2011, he won the gold medal at the European U17 Championships in the mixed doubles event with Mathilda Lindholm. In 2013, he became the runner-up of Estonian International in men's doubles event. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel. In 2017, he was a runner-up of the Estonian International tournament in the men's doubles event partnered with Henri Aarnio.
Airi Mikkelä is a Finnish badminton player. She started playing badminton at 8 years old, then in 2009, she joined Finnish national badminton team. In 2010, she participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. In 2014, she won Iceland International tournament in women's singles event. In 2015, she became the runner-up of Mauritius and Mexico international tournament. In 2016, she won Peru International Series and became the runner-up of Iceland International tournament.
Kalle Koljonen is a Finnish badminton player. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel. He won his first international title at the 2015 Hungarian International. Koljonen became first ever badminton player from his country to medal at the European Championships in 2021.
Sonja Pekkola is a Finnish badminton player. She started playing badminton since 10 years old at her hometown, then in 2012 she joined Finnish national badminton team. She won Finnish National Championships women's singles title in 2013, and six consecutive women's doubles title from 2014–2019. She won the international title at the 2016 Hellas Open in the women's doubles with Jenny Nyström.
Emma Wengberg is a Swedish badminton player affiliated with Västra Frölunda BK. In 2009, she won the Turkey International tournament in the women's doubles event partnered with Emelie Lennartsson. In 2011, she and Lennartsson also won the Scottish International tournament. In 2014, she won the Norwegian International tournament in the women's doubles event with Tilde Iversen of Denmark. In 2015, she won the Portugal and Finnish International tournaments in the mixed doubles event partnered with Filip Michael Duwall Myhren, and also won the women's doubles title at the Finland partnered with Clara Nistad. In March 2015, she and Nistad won the Polish International tournament after beat the English pair Chloe Birch and Jessica Pugh. In 2017, she won the women's doubles title at the Swedish International Series tournament with Nistad.
The Finland national badminton team represents Finland in international badminton team competitions. It is controlled by Badminton Finland, the national organization for badminton in Finland.
The Austria national badminton team represents Austria in international badminton team competitions and is controlled by the Austrian Badminton Association. Austria participated in the Sudirman Cup from 1989 until 2017.
The 2021 Sudirman Cup was the 17th edition of the Sudirman Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the mixed national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF), since its inception in 1989. The tournament was played in Vantaa, Finland, between 26 September and 3 October 2021. China were the defending champions. They successfully defended their title, lifting the trophy for a record-extending 12th time.