Arctic Open

Arctic Open
Official website
Founded1990 (1990)
Editions24 (2024)
LocationVantaa
Finland
VenueEnergia Areena (2024)
Prize moneyUS$420,000 (2024)
Men's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsChou Tien-chen (singles)
Goh Sze Fei
Nur Izzudin (doubles)
Most singles titles3
Joachim Persson
Most doubles titles2
Kim Astrup
Evgenij Isakov
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Women's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsHan Yue (singles)
Liu Shengshu
Tan Ning (doubles)
Most singles titles2
Han Yue
Pernille Nedergaard
Most doubles titles4
Misato Aratama
Petya Nedelcheva
Marlene Thomsen
Akane Watanabe
Mixed doubles
Draw32
Current championsFeng Yanzhe
Huang Dongping
Most titles (male)2
Feng Yanzhe
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Most titles (female)3
Lena Grebak
Super 500
Last completed
2024 Arctic Open

The Arctic Open (until 2013 known as Finnish International), is an international open badminton tournament held in Finland since 1990. It was halted in 1994, 1995, and between 1997 and 2001. In 2013, it was held for the fourth time in the Energia Areena in Vantaa. In 2014, the second international tournament in Finland launched as Finnish International, then this tournament changed its title to Finnish Open. From 2023 onwards, this will be a BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, titled Arctic Open.[1]

Previous winners

Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
1990 Morten Frost Pernille Nedergaard Imay Hendra
Bagus Setiadi
Christine Magnusson
Maria Bengtsson
Thomas Lund
Pernille Dupont
1991 Liu Jun Tang Jiuhong Chen Kang
Chen Hongyong
Nettie Nielsen
Gillian Clark
Henrik Svarrer
Maria Bengtsson
1992 Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen Pernille Nedergaard Peter Axelsson
Pär-Gunnar Jönsson
Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen
Marlene Thomsen
Max Gandrup
Marlene Thomsen
1993 Peter Espersen Camilla Martin Christian Jakobsen
Henrik Svarrer
Marlene Thomsen
Camilla Martin
Jan-Eric Antonsson
Astrid Crabo
1994–
1995
No competition
1996 Rikard Magnusson Joanne Muggeridge Ian Pearson
James Anderson
Kelly Morgan
Joanne Muggeridge
James Anderson
Emma Chaffin
1997–
2001
No competition
2002[2] Kasperi Salo Anu Weckström Evgenij Isakov
Andrei Zholobov
Elin Bergblom
Johanna Persson
Konstantin Dobrev
Petya Nedelcheva
2003[3] Huaiwen Xu Victor Maljutin
Mikhail Kell
Kamila Augustyn
Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
Thomas Laybourn
Julie Houmann
2004[4] Hidetaka Yamada Jiang Yanmei Evgenij Isakov
Sergey Ivlev
Neli Boteva
Petya Nedelcheva
Andrei Konakh
Olga Konon
2005[5] Joachim Persson Susan Hughes Henrik Andersson
Fredrik Bergström
Sandra Marinello
Kathrin Piotrowski
Robert Mateusiak
Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
2006[6] Petra Overzier Jonas Rasmussen
Peter Steffensen
Ekaterina Ananina
Anastasia Russkikh
Jonas Rasmussen
Britta Andersen
2007[7] Li Wenyan Frédéric Mawet
Wouter Claes
Mie Schjøtt-Kristensen
Christinna Pedersen
Tim Dettmann
Annekatrin Lillie
2008[8] Martin Bille Larsen Elizabeth Cann Fran Kurniawan
Rendra Wijaya
Lena Frier Kristiansen
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Fran Kurniawan
Shendy Puspa Irawati
2009[9] Peter Mikkelsen Juliane Schenk Chen Hung-ling
Lin Yu-lang
Valeria Sorokina
Nina Vislova
Vitalij Durkin
Nina Vislova
2010[10] Raul Must Anastasia Prokopenko Sébastien Vincent
Laurent Constantin
Barbara Matias
Élisa Chanteur
Mikkel Delbo Larsen
Mie Schjøtt-Kristensen
2011 No competition
2012[11] Rajiv Ouseph Yao Jie Vladimir Ivanov
Ivan Sozonov
Alex Bruce
Michelle Li
Chris Adcock
Imogen Bankier
2013[12] Carolina Marín Nelson Heg
Teo Ee Yi
Imogen Bankier
Petya Nedelcheva
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Lena Grebak
2014[13] Emil Holst Line Kjærsfeldt Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Line Damkjær Kruse
Marie Røpke
2015[14] Vladimir Malkov Beatriz Corrales Andrew Ellis
Peter Mills
Heather Olver
Lauren Smith
Anatoliy Yartsev
Evgeniya Kosetskaya
2016[15] Kanta Tsuneyama Anna Thea Madsen Mathias Christiansen
David Daugaard
Misato Aratama
Akane Watanabe
Mathias Christiansen
Lena Grebak
2017[16] Rasmus Gemke Shiori Saito Liao Min-chun
Su Cheng-heng
Tseng Min-hao
Hu Ling-fang
2018[17] Leong Jun Hao Gregoria Mariska Tunjung Akbar Bintang Cahyono
Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani
Asumi Kugo
Megumi Yokoyama
Alfian Eko Prasetya
Marsheilla Gischa Islami
2019[18] Kunlavut Vitidsarn Julie Dawall Jakobsen Muhammad Shohibul Fikri
Bagas Maulana
Erina Honda
Nozomi Shimizu
Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto
Lisa Ayu Kusumawati
2020[19] Cancelled[note 1]
2021[20] Cancelled[note 2]
2022[21] Cancelled[note 3]
2023 Lee Zii Jia Han Yue Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Liu Shengshu
Tan Ning
Feng Yanzhe
Huang Dongping
2024 Chou Tien-chen Goh Sze Fei
Nur Izzudin
  1. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 2 to 5 April, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.
  2. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 16 to 19 September, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.
  3. ^ This tournament, originally to be played from 28 September to 1 October, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.

Performances by nation

As of the 2024 edition
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1  Denmark 10 6 5 5.5 8 34.5
2  China 1 4 1 2 2 10
 England 2 2 2 2 2 10
 Russia 1 1 4 2 2 10
5  Indonesia 1 4 3 8
6  Japan 2 1 4 7
7  Sweden 1 2 2 1.5 6.5
8  Germany 3 1 1 5
9  Chinese Taipei 1 2 1 4
 Malaysia 2 2 4
11  Finland 2 1 3
12  Bulgaria 1.5 1 2.5
13  France 1 1 2
 Poland 1 1 2
 Scotland 1 0.5 0.5 2
 Spain 2 2
17  Belarus 1 1
 Belgium 1 1
 Canada 1 1
 Estonia 1 1
 Netherlands 1 1
 Thailand 1 1
 Singapore 1 1
24  Wales 0.5 0.5
Total 24 24 24 24 24 120

References

  1. ^ "BWF World Tour Hosts 2023-2026 Announced". Badminton World Federation. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  2. ^ 2002 winners
  3. ^ 2003 winners
  4. ^ 2004 winners
  5. ^ 2005 winners
  6. ^ 2006 winners
  7. ^ 2007 winners
  8. ^ 2008 winners
  9. ^ 2009 winners
  10. ^ 2010 winners
  11. ^ 2012 winners
  12. ^ 2013 winners
  13. ^ 2014 winners
  14. ^ 2015 winners
  15. ^ 2016 winners
  16. ^ 2017 winners
  17. ^ 2018 winners
  18. ^ 2019 winners
  19. ^ 2020
  20. ^ 2021
  21. ^ 2022