Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships

Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships or Swedish International Stockholm is an annual badminton tournament held in Sweden and hosted by Svenska Badmintonförbundet. It is part of the European Badminton Circuit. The tournament was started by Stockholms Badmintonförbund in 2004. Stockholms Badmintonförbund was running the tournament until 2008 and was handed over to Svenska Badmintonförbundet. The tournament was played in Sweden's capital Stockholm up until the 2013 edition. In 2014 the tournament moved to Uppsala,[1] about 1 hour north of Stockholm, and was run by former Swedish player Pär-Gunnar Jönsson. The 2016 edition represented the first BE International Challenge circuit tournament with the new increased prize money from US$15,000 to US$17,000, and will reach $25,000 by 2018. The Swedish Masters tournament also has one of the most unusual tournament trophies, in a circular shape representing the ring on the cork of the shuttle, with all the names of previous winners engraved on the inside.

Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships
Swedish Masters Trophy was played for during the tournaments time in Uppsala between 2014-2016
Statusactive
Genresports event
Frequencyannual
Location(s)various
CountrySweden
Inaugurated2004 (2004)
Organised byBadminton Sweden
Kirsty Gilmour (Scotland), two times winner in 2014 and 2015
Emma Wengberg & Clara Nistad winning on home soil for Sweden in 2017

In 2017 the tournament went back to an International Series from its previous position as an International Challenge and moved to a new home in Lund, just north of Malmo. The tournament also reverted to its original name of Swedish International from the previous three editions as the Swedish Masters.

In 2018 the tournament will revert to the name of Swedish Open (badminton), as used between 1956 and 2000. The tournament will be hosted in Lund as an International Series.

Past winners

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Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
2004   Shōji Satō   Tine Rasmussen   Michał Łogosz
  Robert Mateusiak
  Kamila Augustyn
  Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
  Kristof Hopp
  Kathrin Piotrowski
2005   Evgenij Isakov   Elizabeth Cann   Simon Archer
  Anthony Clark
  Miyuki Tai
  Noriko Okuma
  Nikolai Zuev
  Marina Yakusheva
2006   Joachim Persson   Tine Rasmussen   Michael Fuchs
  Roman Spitko
  Johanna Persson
  Elin Bergblom
  Imam Sodikin Irawan
  Cynthia Tuwankotta
2007   Kenichi Tago   Li Wenyan   Imam Sodikin
  Imanuel Hirschfeld
  Guo Xin
  Cai Jiani
  Rasmus Bonde
  Christinna Pedersen
2008   Marc Zwiebler   Rasmus Mangor Andersen
  Peter Steffensen
  Yu Qi
  Cai Jiani
  Peter Steffensen
  Julie Houmann
2009   Jan Ø. Jørgensen   Yu Hirayama   Naoki Kawamae
  Shōji Satō
  Rachel van Cutsen
  Paulien van Dooremalen
  Valeriy Atrashchenkov
  Elena Prus
2010   Indra Bagus Ade Chandra   Kaori Imabeppu   Chris Langridge
  Robin Middleton
  Helle Nielsen
  Marie Røpke
  Mads Pieler Kolding
  Britta Andersen
2011   Pablo Abián   Kim Astrup Sorensen
  Rasmus Fladberg
  Line Damkjær Kruse
  Marie Røpke
  Robin Middleton
  Heather Olver
2012   Chan Yan Kit   Pi Hongyan   Vladimir Ivanov
  Ivan Sozonov
  Mariana Agathangelou
  Heather Olver
  Nathan Robertson
  Jenny Wallwork
2013   Kento Momota   Carolina Marín   Jacco Arends
  Jelle Maas
  Selena Piek
  Iris Tabeling
  Peter Käsbauer
  Isabel Herttrich
2014   Ville Lang   Kirsty Gilmour   Adam Cwalina
  Przemysław Wacha
  Eefje Muskens
  Selena Piek
  Robert Blair
  Imogen Bankier
2015   Rajiv Ouseph   Kim Astrup Sorensen
  Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
  Anastasia Chervaykova
  Nina Vislova
  Jacco Arends
  Selena Piek
2016   Anders Antonsen   Karin Schnaase   Mathias Christiansen
  David Daugaard
  Maiken Fruergaard
  Sara Thygesen
  Robert Mateusiak
  Nadieżda Zięba
2017   Toby Penty   Mia Blichfeldt   Konstantin Abramov
  Alexandr Zinchenko
  Clara Nistad
  Emma Wengberg
  Mikkel Mikkelsen
  Mai Surrow

Performances by nation

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Top Nations
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1   Denmark 3 3 4 3 4 17
2   Japan 3 3 1 1 8
3   England 2 1 2 1 2 8
4   Germany 1 1 1 2 5
  Netherlands 1 3 1 5
  Russia 1 2 1 1 5
7   China 2 2 4
  Poland 2 1 1 4
9   Scotland 2 1 3
  Sweden 1 2 3
11   Spain 1 1 2
12   Indonesia 1 0.5 1.5
13   Finland 1 1
  France 1 1
  Hong Kong 1 1
  Ukraine 1 1
17   Switzerland 0.5 0.5
Total 14 14 14 14 14 70

References

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  1. ^ Phelan, Mark. "Intriguing mixed doubles on the cards". badmintoneurope.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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