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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.<ref>{{cite news|title=HELEXPO THESSALONIKI GRAND PRIX – 26 sept au 2 oct 05 |url=http://masterbadgroup.be/MasterBadBlog/masterbad.skynetblogs.be/archive/2005/09/27/helexpo-thessaloniki-grand-prix-26-sept-au-2-oct-05.html |publisher=masterbad |access-date=26 July 2017|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Δύσκολη πρεμιέρα στην Θεσσαλονίκη |url=http://www.contra.gr/Sports/Badminton/article1117442.ece |publisher=Contra.gr |access-date=26 July 2017|language=el}}</ref> In 2006, the tournament was known as Hellas International, and in [[2007–08 European Badminton Circuit season|season 2007/2008]] it was introduced again in the European circuit as an [[BWF International Series]] with the total pursue $5,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hellas International 2007 |url=http://bwfbadminton.org/tournamentcalendar_event.aspx?id=10107&calendarid=103 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214040908/http://bwfbadminton.org/tournamentcalendar_event.aspx?id=10107&calendarid=103 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Wayback Machine]] |archive-date=14 December 2010 |access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Badminton Europe Circuit 2007/2008 - Tournament List |url=http://www.eurobadminton.org:80/page.aspx?id=3068 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514003304/http://www.eurobadminton.org/page.aspx?id=3068 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Wayback Machine]] |archive-date=14 May 2008 |access-date=25 July 2017 }}</ref>

==Previous winners==
The table below gives an overview of the winners at the tournament.<ref>{{cite web|title=Greece |url=http://www.badmintonpeople.com/Clubs/CommonDrive/Components/GetWWWFile.aspx?fileID=63140 |pages=6–7|publisher=[[Badminton Europe]] |access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref>
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"
!Year
!Men's singles
!Women's singles
!Men's doubles
!Women's doubles
!Mixed doubles
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=123FDE3C-1BAE-4239-8716-846062C34033 2000]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Boris Kesov]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Yasen Borisov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Luben Panov]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Diana Koleva]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Slantchezar Tzankov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=55B6F68B-27CA-4079-8459-70A1D9FAA431 2001]
|{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Theodoros Velkos]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Diana Dimova]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Yulian Hristov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (badminton)|Georgi Petrov]]
|{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Chrisa Georgali]] <br /> {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Christina Mavromatidou]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Yulian Hristov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Diana Dimova]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=485B7F2E-ECE2-43BC-B4B5-2B1273BD642D 2002]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (badminton)|Georgi Petrov]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|rowspan=2|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Konstantin Dobrev]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (badminton)|Georgi Petrov]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Neli Boteva]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Konstantin Dobrev]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=14BAFF72-9FD7-467D-90DC-51CDB7183733 2003]
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Conrad Hückstädt]]
|{{flagicon|ROU}} [[Florentina Petre]]
|{{flagicon|ROU}} [[Alexandra Olariu]] <br /> {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Florentina Petre]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Yulian Hristov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Diana Dimova]]
|-
|2004
|colspan=5 align=center|''No competition''
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=16174E07-EC9F-4BEC-9427-EE53C20725C1 2005]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Niels Christian Kaldau]]
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Huaiwen Xu]]
|{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Robert Blair (badminton)|Robert Blair]] <br /> {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Anthony Clark (badminton)|Anthony Clark]]
|{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Gail Emms]] <br /> {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Donna Kellogg]]
|{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Anthony Clark (badminton)|Anthony Clark]] <br /> {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Donna Kellogg]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=E89687B2-65D5-4A8E-8D81-F7FEADF09E0E 2006]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (badminton)|Georgi Petrov]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Hui Ding]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Blagovest Kisyov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (badminton)|Georgi Petrov]]
|{{flagicon|INA}} [[Atu Rosalina]] <br /> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Claudia Vogelgsang]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giovanni Traina]] <br /> {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Hui Ding]]
|-
|[https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=9A16C4D1-FDAD-47B4-BD81-D14490178A78 2007]
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Marc Zwiebler]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|{{flagicon|MAS}} [[Au Kok Leong]] <br /> {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Goh Ying Jin]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Diana Dimova]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Mads Pieler Kolding]] <br /> {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Line Damkjær Kruse]]
|-
|[https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=917CF813-3A98-4939-8932-65D333760275 2008]
|{{flagicon|TPE}} [[Hsieh Yu-hsin]]
|{{flagicon|TPE}} [[Hung Shih-han]]
|{{flagicon|TPE}} [[Chien Yu-hsun]] <br /> {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Lin Yen-jui]]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Maria Helsbøl]] <br /> {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Anne Skelbæk]]
|{{flagicon|TPE}} [[Chen Hung-ling]] <br /> {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Hsieh Pei-chen]]
|-
|2009–<br>2012
|colspan=5 align=center|''No competition''
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=5CB3C34C-366A-4315-BC22-BA26A9878AA1 2013]
|{{flagicon|MAS}} [[Misbun Ramdan Misbun]]
|rowspan=2|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Linda Zetchiri]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nikolaj Nikolaenko]] <br /> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nikolai Ukk]]
|{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Cemre Fere]] <br /> {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Neslihan Kılıç]]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[René Mattisson]] <br /> {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Thilde Mattisson|Tilde Iversen]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=187EF5E9-FA63-4920-9627-BC4BA61A5471 2014]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Kim Bruun]]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Mathias Christiansen]] <br /> {{flagicon|DEN}} [[David Daugaard]]
|{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Özge Bayrak]] <br /> {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Neslihan Yiğit]]
|{{flagicon|IRL}} [[Sam Magee]] <br /> {{flagicon|IRL}} [[Chloe Magee]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=C890EEEC-75A5-4213-9F82-FF0F9E163EDA 2015]
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Fabian Roth]]
|{{flagicon|ENG}} [[Fontaine Chapman]]
|{{flagicon|POL}} [[Miłosz Bochat]] <br /> {{flagicon|POL}} [[Paweł Pietryja]]
|{{flagicon|BEL}} [[Steffi Annys]] <br /> {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Flore Vandenhoucke]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Ilya Zhdanov]] <br /> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Tatjana Bibik]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=577E4EB6-77F1-421C-B08A-E2DB5FA9EC0F 2016]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Ivan Rusev (badminton)|Ivan Rusev]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Mariya Mitsova]]
|rowspan=3|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Daniel Nikolov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Ivan Rusev (badminton)|Ivan Rusev]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Mariya Mitsova]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Lilian Mihaylov]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=74D09A58-B7BE-4144-8C5A-6AACB31FB91C 2017]
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Kim Bruun]]
|{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Aliye Demirbağ]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Ekaterina Kut]] <br /> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Daria Serebriakova]]
|{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Osman Uyhan]] <br /> {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Aliye Demirbağ]]
|-
|[https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=65DEEE82-EC2B-4DE0-8200-B572FE5C5ADF 2018]
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Toma Junior Popov]]
|{{flagicon|THA}} [[Porntip Buranaprasertsuk]]
|{{flagicon|THA}} [[Porntip Buranaprasertsuk]] <br /> {{flagicon|BLR}} [[Kristina Silich]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Dimitar Yanakiev (badminton)|Dimitar Yanakiev]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Mariya Mitsova]]
|-
|[http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=9ADD9C20-232C-4EB3-8D93-BAE9E4F4104E 2019]
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Lars Schänzler]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Mariya Mitsova]]
|{{flagicon|POL}} [[Miłosz Bochat]] <br /> {{flagicon|POL}} [[Paweł Śmiłowski]]
|{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Zehra Erdem]] <br /> {{flagicon|TUR}} [[İlayda Nur Özelgül]]
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Alex Vlaar]] <br /> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Mariya Mitsova]]
|-
|2020
|colspan=5 align=center|''No competition''
|-
|[https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament?id=E0FE9780-A790-4792-8F43-BFAB860BC905 2021]
|{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Lee Shun Yang]]
|{{Flagicon|ENG}} [[Abigail Holden]]
|{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Junaidi Arif]] <br/>{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Muhammad Haikal]]
|{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Low Yeen Yuan]] <br/>{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Valeree Siow]]
|{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Yap Roy King]] <br/>{{Flagicon|MAS}} [[Valeree Siow]]
|-
|2022–<br>2024
|colspan=5 align=center|''No competition''
|}

== Performances by nation ==
<small>Updated after the 2021 edition.</small>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! colspan="10" | Top Nations 
|-
! Pos 
! Nation 
! MS 
! WS 
! MD 
! WD 
! XD 
! Total 
|-
| 1 
| align="left" | {{BUL}} 
| 4 
| 8 
| 8
| 4 
| 7
| '''31''' 
|-
| 2 
| align="left" | {{DEN}} 
| 3 
|  
| 1 
| 1 
| 2 
| '''7''' 
|-
| 3 
| align="left" | {{MAS}} 
| 2 
|  
| 2 
| 1 
| 1 
| '''6''' 
|-
| 4 
| align="left" | {{GER}} 
| 4 
| 1 
|  
| 0.5 
|  
| '''5.5''' 
|-
| rowspan="2" | 5 
| align="left" | {{ENG}} 
|  
| 2 
| 1 
| 1 
| 1 
| '''5''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{TUR}} 
|  
| 1 
|  
| 3 
| 1 
| '''5''' 
|-
| 7
| align="left" | {{TPE}} 
| 1 
| 1 
| 1 
|  
| 1 
| '''4''' 
|-
| 8
| align="left" | {{RUS}} 
|  
|  
| 1 
| 1 
| 1 
| '''3''' 
|-
| rowspan="4" | 9
| align="left" | '''{{GRE}}''' 
| 1 
|  
|  
| 1 
|  
| '''2''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{ITA}} 
|  
| 1 
|  
|  
| 1 
| '''2''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{POL}} 
|  
|  
| 2 
|  
|  
| '''2''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{ROU}} 
|  
| 1 
|  
| 1 
|  
| '''2''' 
|-
| 13
| align="left" | {{THA}} 
|  
| 1
|  
| 0.5
|  
| '''1.5''' 
|-
| rowspan="3" | 14
| align="left" | {{BEL}} 
|  
|  
|  
| 1 
|  
| '''1''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{FRA}} 
| 1
|  
|  
| 
|  
| '''1''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{IRL}} 
|  
|  
|  
|  
| 1 
| '''1''' 
|-
| rowspan="2" | 17
| align="left" | {{BLR}} 
|  
|  
|  
| 0.5 
|  
| '''0.5''' 
|-
| align="left" | {{INA}} 
|  
|  
|  
| 0.5 
|  
| '''0.5''' 
|-
! colspan="2" | Total 
! 16
! 16
! 16
! 16
! 16
! 80
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.badminton.gr Hellenic Badminton Federation]

{{Badminton competitions}}

[[Category:Badminton tournaments in Greece]]
[[Category:Badminton in Greece]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events established in 2000]]


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