Official website | |
Founded | 1936 |
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Editions | 72 (2023) |
Location | Odense (2023) Denmark |
Venue | Arena Fyn (2023) |
Prize money | USD$750,000 (2023) |
Men's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | Weng Hongyang (singles) Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 8 Morten Frost |
Most doubles titles | 4 Ng Boon Bee Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi Jon Holst-Christensen Lars Paaske |
Women's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | Chen Yufei (singles) Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 8 Tonny Olsen |
Most doubles titles | 5 Tonny Ahm Kirsten Thorndahl |
Mixed doubles | |
Draw | 32 |
Current champions | Feng Yanzhe Huang Dongping |
Most titles (male) | 5 Thomas Lund |
Most titles (female) | 5 Nora Perry |
Super 750 | |
Last completed | |
2023 Denmark Open |
The Denmark Open, or formerly known as Danish Open, is an annual badminton tournament held in Denmark and organized by Badminton Denmark.
The Denmark Open was part of the BWF Super Series Premier from 2011 to 2017. BWF categorised it as one of the five BWF World Tour Super 750 events per the BWF events structure since 2018. [1]
The tournament started in 1936 and it is now the world's second oldest badminton tournament. It was interrupted by World War II and was on hiatus from 1956 through 1964. It seeks to draw the top players from around the World. The tournament is usually played in late October each year.
Eleven locations have been chosen to host the tournament. The 2007 and 2008 tournaments were held in Arena Fyn in Odense. [2] Since 2008, the tournaments have been held in Odense. [3]
Pos. | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
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1 | Denmark | 35 | 26 | 21.5 | 18.5 | 37 | 138 |
2 | China | 13 | 22 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 71 |
3 | Japan | 3 | 9 | 3.5 | 14 | 1 | 30.5 |
4 | England | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7.5 | 11.5 | 26 |
5 | Indonesia | 6 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 25 |
6 | Malaysia | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1.5 | 20.5 | |
7 | South Korea | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 19 | |
8 | Sweden | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
9 | India | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
Singapore | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
11 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 2 | ||||
Germany | 2 | 2 | |||||
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | |||||
Thailand | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
15 | France | 1 | 1 | ||||
Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | |||||
Poland | 1 | 1 | |||||
United States | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 360 |
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