Hellas International

The Hellas International or Greece 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]

Previous winners

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

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
2000	Boris Kesov	Petya Nedelcheva	Yasen Borisov Luben Panov	Diana Koleva Petya Nedelcheva	Slantchezar Tzankov Petya Nedelcheva
2001	Theodoros Velkos	Diana Dimova	Yulian Hristov Georgi Petrov	Chrisa Georgali Christina Mavromatidou	Yulian Hristov Diana Dimova
2002	Georgi Petrov	Petya Nedelcheva	Konstantin Dobrev Georgi Petrov	Petya Nedelcheva Neli Boteva	Konstantin Dobrev Petya Nedelcheva
2003	Conrad Hückstädt	Florentina Petre	Konstantin Dobrev Georgi Petrov	Alexandra Olariu Florentina Petre	Yulian Hristov Diana Dimova
2004	No competition
2005	Niels Christian Kaldau	Huaiwen Xu	Robert Blair Anthony Clark	Gail Emms Donna Kellogg	Anthony Clark Donna Kellogg
2006	Georgi Petrov	Hui Ding	Blagovest Kisyov Georgi Petrov	Atu Rosalina Claudia Vogelgsang	Giovanni Traina Hui Ding
2007	Marc Zwiebler	Petya Nedelcheva	Au Kok Leong Goh Ying Jin	Diana Dimova Petya Nedelcheva	Mads Pieler Kolding Line Damkjær Kruse
2008	Hsieh Yu-hsin	Hung Shih-han	Chien Yu-hsun Lin Yen-jui	Maria Helsbøl Anne Skelbæk	Chen Hung-ling Hsieh Pei-chen
2009– 2012	No competition
2013	Misbun Ramdan Misbun	Linda Zetchiri	Nikolaj Nikolaenko Nikolai Ukk	Cemre Fere Neslihan Kılıç	René Mattisson Tilde Iversen
2014	Kim Bruun	Linda Zetchiri	Mathias Christiansen David Daugaard	Özge Bayrak Neslihan Yiğit	Sam Magee Chloe Magee
2015	Fabian Roth	Fontaine Chapman	Miłosz Bochat Paweł Pietryja	Steffi Annys Flore Vandenhoucke	Ilya Zhdanov Tatjana Bibik
2016	Ivan Rusev	Mariya Mitsova	Daniel Nikolov Ivan Rusev	Mariya Mitsova Petya Nedelcheva	Lilian Mihaylov Petya Nedelcheva
2017	Kim Bruun	Aliye Demirbağ		Ekaterina Kut Daria Serebriakova	Osman Uyhan Aliye Demirbağ
2018	Toma Junior Popov	Porntip Buranaprasertsuk		Porntip Buranaprasertsuk Kristina Silich	Dimitar Yanakiev Mariya Mitsova
2019	Lars Schänzler	Mariya Mitsova	Miłosz Bochat Paweł Śmiłowski	Zehra Erdem İlayda Nur Özelgül	Alex Vlaar Mariya Mitsova
2020	No competition
2021	Lee Shun Yang	Abigail Holden	Junaidi Arif Muhammad Haikal	Low Yeen Yuan Valeree Siow	Yap Roy King Valeree Siow
2022– 2024	No competition

Performances by nation

Updated after the 2021 edition.

Top Nations
Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Bulgaria	4	8	8	4	7	31
2	Denmark	3		1	1	2	7
3	Malaysia	2		2	1	1	6
4	Germany	4	1		0.5		5.5
5	England		2	1	1	1	5
5	Turkey		1		3	1	5
7	Chinese Taipei	1	1	1		1	4
8	Russia			1	1	1	3
9	Greece	1			1		2
	Italy		1			1	2
	Poland			2			2
	Romania		1		1		2
13	Thailand		1		0.5		1.5
14	Belgium				1		1
	France	1					1
	Ireland					1	1
17	Belarus				0.5		0.5
17	Indonesia				0.5		0.5
Total		16	16	16	16	16	80

References

^ "HELEXPO THESSALONIKI GRAND PRIX – 26 sept au 2 oct 05" (in French). masterbad. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^ "Δύσκολη πρεμιέρα στην Θεσσαλονίκη" (in Greek). Contra.gr. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^ "Hellas International 2007". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^ "Badminton Europe Circuit 2007/2008 - Tournament List". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^ "Greece". Badminton Europe. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

External links

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[1] "HELEXPO THESSALONIKI GRAND PRIX – 26 sept au 2 oct 05" (in French). masterbad. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

[2] "Δύσκολη πρεμιέρα στην Θεσσαλονίκη" (in Greek). Contra.gr. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

[3] "Hellas International 2007". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

[4] "Badminton Europe Circuit 2007/2008 - Tournament List". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

[5] "Greece". Badminton Europe. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

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