The Hellas Open in badminton is an international open held in Greece since 2016 and are thereby one of the most recent international championships in Europe. [1]
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 |
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2016 | Kim Bruun | Fabienne Deprez | Miłosz Bochat Paweł Pietryja | Jenny Nyström Sonja Pekkola | Paweł Pietryja Aneta Wojtkowska |
2017 | Neslihan Yiğit | Kasper Antonsen Niclas Nøhr | Özge Bayrak Cemre Fere | Rohan Kapoor Kuhoo Garg | |
2018 | Adrian Dziółko | Luise Heim | Arjun M.R. Ramchandran Shlok | Rutaparna Panda Arathi Sara Sunil | Arjun M.R. K. Maneesha |
2019 | Lim Chong King | Kisona Selvaduray | Eloi Adam Julien Maio | Vimala Hériau Margot Lambert | Fabien Delrue Vimala Hériau |
Top Nations | |||||||||
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Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total | ||
1 | India | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||
2 | Denmark | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
5 | Germany | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Malaysia | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Turkey | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
8 | Finland | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 |
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