Greece International

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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]

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Previous winners

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

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

Performances by nation

Top Nations
PosNationMSWSMDWDXDTotal
1Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 4884731
2Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 31127
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 410.55.5
4Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 1315
5Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 11114
Flag of England.svg  England 11114
7Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1113
8Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 112
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 112
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 112
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 22
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 112
13Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 10.51.5
14Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 11
Flag of France.svg  France 11
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 11
17Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 0.50.5
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 0.50.5
Total151515151575

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