Bulgarian Open (badminton)

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 Championship.

Previous winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1985	Heinz Fischer	Monika Cassens	Heinz FischerJeliazko Valkov	Monika CassensKerstin Bohn	Thomas MundtMonika Cassens
1986		Helle Andersen	Thomas LundMax Gandrup	Susanne PedersenTanja Berg
1987	Jacek Hankiewicz	Monika Cassens	Peter Buch JensenKarsten Wolfgang	Monika CassensAngela Michalowski	Kai AbrahamPetra Michalowsky
1988	Jin Feng	Lin Yanfen	Lin JianFu Qiang	Lin YanfenZhang Wanling	Li JianGao Meifeng
1989	Liang Zhiofang		Yu LizhiZheng Shouta		Chi BingLin Yanfen
1990	Andrey Antropov	Irina Serova	Andrey AntropovNikolai Zuyev	Diana KolevaHellene Kirkegaard	Nikolai ZuyevIrina Serova
1991	Robert Liljequist		Markus KeckMichael Helber	Andrea FindhammerAnne-Katrin Seid	Markus KeckAnne-Katrin Seid
1992	Anatoliy Skripko	Victoria Hristova	Svetoslav StoyanovMihail Popov	Neli NedyalkovaReni Asenova	Svetoslav StoyanovRaina Tzvetkova
1993	Hannes Fuchs	Irina Serova	Mikhail KorschukVitaliy Shmakov	Tatiana GerasimovitchVlada Chernyavskaya	Vitaliy ShmakovVlada Chernyavskaya
1994		Katarzyna Krasowska	Robert MateusiakDamian Pławecki	Elena NozdranVictoria Evtoushenko	Vladislav DruzchenkoVictoria Evtoushenko
1995	Anders Nielsen	Elena Nozdran	Thomas ReidyKevin Han	Diana KolevaNeli Nedyalkova
1996–1998	Not held
1999	Kasper Ødum	Elena Nozdran	Joachim TescheChristian Mohr	Diana KolevaNeli Nedyalkova	Valerij StreltsovNatalia Golovkina
2000	Not held
2001	Richard Vaughan	Petya Nedelcheva	Peter JeffreyIan Palenthorpe	Liza ParkerSuzanne Rayappan	Robert BlairNatalie Munt
2002	Stanislav Pukhov	Elena Suchareva	Stanislav PukhovNikolai Zuyev	Natalia GorodnichevaMarina Yakusheva	Nikolai ZuyevMarina Yakusheva
2003	Shoji Sato	Petya Nedelcheva	Thomas Røjkjær JensenTommy Sørensen	Petya NedelchevaNeli Boteva	Dimitry MiznikovNatalia Golovkina
2004	Nathan Rice	Elizabeth Cann	Ruben Gordown KhosadalinaAji Basuki Sindoro	Ragna IngólfsdóttirSara Jónsdóttir	Steve FosterJenny Wallwork
2005	Joachim Fischer Nielsen	Petya Nedelcheva	Mihail PopovSvetoslav Stoyanov	Petya NedelchevaDiana Dimova	Vladimir MetodievPetya Nedelcheva
2006	Sergei Ivlev	Linda Zetchiri	Rasmus Mangor AndersenPeter Steffensen		Tim DettmannAnnekatrin Lillie
2007	Jan Fröhlich	Petya Nedelcheva	Robert MateusiakMichał Łogosz	Valeria SorokinaNina Vislova	Aleksandr NikolaenkoNina Vislova
2008	Yuichi Ikeda		Vitalij DurkinAleksandr Nikolaenko
2009	Rune Ulsing		Kasper Faust HenriksenAnders Kristiansen	Petya NedelchevaAnastasia Russkikh	Robert MateusiakNadieżda Kostiuczyk
2010	Przemysław Wacha		Marcus EllisPeter Mills		Evgeniy DreminAnastasia Russkikh
2011		Linda Zetchiri	Liang Jui-weiLiao Kuan-hao	Heather OlverMariana Agathangelou	Valeriy AtrashchenkovAnna Kobceva
2012 IC[1]	Kęstutis Navickas	Petya Nedelcheva	Robert BlairTan Bin Shen	Gabriela StoevaStefani Stoeva	Michael FuchsBirgit Michels
2013 IC[2]	Emil Holst	Beatriz Corrales	Łukasz MoreńWojciech Szkudlarczyk		Robert BlairImogen Bankier
2014 IC[3]	Marc Zwiebler		Selvanus GehKevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Della Destiara HarisGebby Ristiyani Imawan	Fran KurniawanKomala Dewi
2015 IC[4]	Pablo Abián	Olga Konon	Raphael BeckPeter Käsbauer	Gabriela StoevaStefani Stoeva	Robert MateusiakNadieżda Zięba
2016 IS[5]	Patrick Bjerregaard	Clara Azurmendi	Pakin Kuna-anuvitNatthapat Trinkajee	Cemre FereNeslihan Kılıç	Rodion AlimovAlina Davletova
2017 IS[6]	Lakshya Sen	Neslihan Yiğit	Mathias ThyrriSøren Toft Hansen	Gabriela StoevaStefani Stoeva	Alex VlaarIris Tabeling
2018 IS[7]	Toma Junior Popov		Christo PopovToma Junior Popov		Alex VlaarMariya Mitsova
2019 IS[8]			Éloi AdamJulien Maio	Bengisu ErçetinNazlıcan İnci	Joshua Hurlburt-YuJosephine Wu
2020 IS[9]	Cancelled[note 1]
2021 IS[10]	Cancelled[note 2]
2022–2024	Not held

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

Performances by nation

As of the 2019 edition

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
	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
	Spain	1	3	0	0	0	4
16	Belarus	0	0	1	1	1	3
17	Japan	2	0	0	0	0	2
	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
	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0.5	0.5
Total		31	31	31	31	31	155

References

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
10. 2021