Bulgarian Open Championship

The Bulgarian Open Championship is an annual international badminton championships held in Bulgaria since 1985, by then known as Bulgarian International. It was halted between 1996 and 1998, and in 2000. The tournament belongs to the Badminton Europe elite circuit and become the highest level badminton tournament in Bulgaria. It changed to its current name in 2017, to differentiate it from the second badminton tournament in the country which is now known as Bulgarian International.

Previous winners[]

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1985		Monika Cassens		Monika Cassens	Monika Cassens
1986			Thomas Lund Max Gandrup		Monika Cassens
1987	Jacek Hankiewicz	Monika Cassens		Monika Cassens
1988		Lin Yanfen		Lin Yanfen
1989		Lin Yanfen	Yu Lizhi	Lin Yanfen	Lin Yanfen
1990	Andrey Antropov	Irina Serova	Andrey Antropov Nikolai Zuyev	Diana Koleva Hellene Kirkegaard	Nikolai Zuyev Irina Serova
1991		Irina Serova	Michael Helber
1992		Victoria Hristova	Svetoslav Stoyanov Mihail Popov	Neli Nedyalkova	Svetoslav Stoyanov
1993	Hannes Fuchs	Irina Serova		Vlada Chernyavskaya	Vlada Chernyavskaya
1994	Hannes Fuchs	Katarzyna Krasowska	Robert Mateusiak	Elena Nozdran Victoria Evtoushenko	Vladislav Druzchenko Victoria Evtoushenko
1995	Anders Nielsen	Elena Nozdran	Thomas Reidy Kevin Han	Diana Koleva Neli Nedyalkova	Vladislav Druzchenko Victoria Evtoushenko
1996–1998	Not held
1999	Kasper Ødum	Elena Nozdran		Diana Koleva Neli Nedyalkova
2000	Not held
2001	Richard Vaughan	Petya Nedelcheva	Peter Jeffrey	Liza Parker Suzanne Rayappan	Robert Blair Natalie Munt
2002	Stanislav Pukhov		Stanislav Pukhov Nikolai Zuyev	Marina Yakusheva	Nikolai Zuyev Marina Yakusheva
2003	Shoji Sato	Petya Nedelcheva	Tommy Sørensen	Petya Nedelcheva Neli Boteva
2004		Elizabeth Cann		Ragna Ingólfsdóttir	Jenny Wallwork
2005	Joachim Fischer Nielsen	Petya Nedelcheva	Mihail Popov Svetoslav Stoyanov	Petya Nedelcheva Diana Dimova	Petya Nedelcheva
2006	Sergei Ivlev	Linda Zechiri	Peter Steffensen	Petya Nedelcheva Diana Dimova	Tim Dettmann
2007	Jan Fröhlich	Petya Nedelcheva	Robert Mateusiak Michał Łogosz	Nina Vislova Valeria Sorokina	Alexander Nikolaenko Nina Vislova
2008			Vitaliy Durkin Alexandr Nikolaenko	Nina Vislova Valeria Sorokina	Alexander Nikolaenko Nina Vislova
2009	Rune Ulsing		Kasper Faust Henriksen Anders Kristiansen	Petya Nedelcheva Anastasia Russkikh	Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
2010	Przemysław Wacha		Marcus Ellis Peter Mills	Petya Nedelcheva Anastasia Russkikh	Evgeniy Dremin Anastasia Russkikh
2011	Przemysław Wacha	Linda Zechiri	Liang Jui-wei Liao Kuan-hao	Heather Olver Mariana Agathangelou	Valeriy Atrashchenkov Anna Kobceva
2012 IC^[1]	Kestutis Navickas	Petya Nedelcheva	Robert Blair Tan Bin Shen	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels
2013 IC^[2]	Emil Holst	Beatriz Corrales	Łukasz Moreń Wojciech Szkudlarczyk	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Robert Blair Imogen Bankier
2014 IC^[3]	Marc Zwiebler	Beatriz Corrales	Selvanus Geh Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Della Destiara Haris Gebby Ristiyani Imawan	Fran Kurniawan Komala Dewi
2015 IC^[4]	Pablo Abián	Olga Konon	Raphael Beck Peter Kaesbauer	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Robert Mateusiak Nadiezda Zieba
2016 IS^[5]	Patrick Bjerregaard	Clara Azurmendi	Pakin Kuna-anuvit Natthapat Trinkajee	Cemre Fere Neslihan Kılıç	Rodion Alimov Alina Davletova
2017 IS^[6]	Lakshya Sen	Neslihan Yiğit	Søren Toft Hansen	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Alex Vlaar Iris Tabeling
2018 IS^[7]	Toma Junior Popov		Christo Popov Toma Junior Popov	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Alex Vlaar Mariya Mitsova
2019 IS^[8]	Toma Junior Popov		Julien Maio	Bengisu Erçetin Nazlıcan İnci	Joshua Hurlburt-Yu Josephine Wu
2020 IS^[9]	Cancelled^{[note 1]}
2021 IS^[10]	Cancelled^{[note 2]}

^ This tournament, originally to be played from 10 to 13 August, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.
^ This tournament, originally to be played from 9 to 12 August, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.

Performances by nation[]

Top Nations
Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Bulgaria	0	11	1.5	12.5	3.5	28.5
2	Russia	2	1	2	4	5	14
3	Denmark	5	1	6	1.5	0	13.5
4	China	2	2	2	2	2	10
5	Germany	1	1	3	1	3	9
5	Poland	3	1	3	0	2	9
7	England	2	1	2	2	1.5	8.5
8	Ukraine	0	2	0	1	5	8
9	East Germany	0	2	0	2	3	7
10	Austria	4	1	0.5	0	0	5.5
11	France	2	0	3	0	0	5
	Soviet Union	1	2	1	0	1	5
	Turkey	0	3	0	2	0	5
14	Indonesia	0	0	2	1	1	4
14	Spain	1	3	0	0	0	4
16	Belarus	0	0	1	1	1	3
17	Japan	2	0	0	0	0	2
17	Scotland	0	0	0.5	0	1.5	2
19	Canada	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	0	0	1
	CIS	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Iceland	0	0	0	1	0	1
	India	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	0	0	1
	United States	0	0	1	0	0	1
	Wales	1	0	0	0	0	1
30	Malaysia	0	0	0.5	0	0	0.5
30	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0.5	0.5
Total		31	31	31	31	31	155

References[]

[10] This tournament, originally to be played from 10 to 13 August, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.

[12] This tournament, originally to be played from 9 to 12 August, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.

[1] 2012 results

[2] 2013 results

[3] 2014 results

[4] 2015 results

[5] 2016 results

[6] 2017 results

[7] 2018 results

[8] 2019 results

[9] 2020 results

[11] 2021 results

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