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2021 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships
The 2021 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships is held in Vantaa, Finland, between 16 and 20 February 2021 and organised by Badminton Europe and Badminton Finland. Milton Keynes in England was the original host for the championships, but withdrew due to financial issues related to COVID-19 pandemic and replaced by Finland. Qualification Direct qualifiers * (Host country) * (Reigning champion) Qualification stage The qualification stage was held between 9–12 December 2020 in 6 cities across Europe. Two of the qualification events in Germany and France had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. §: Subgroup's winner. *: Cancelled due to the withdrawal of 3 out of 4 teams. *: Cancelled due to the qualification stage cannot be hosted in France or any of the other countries participating in this group. *: Lithuania withdrew from this qualification stage. Group stage Group 1 *''Denmark vs. Finland'' *''Scotland vs. Germany'' ---- *''Denmark vs. Germany'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energia Areena
Energia Areena is a multifunctional indoor arena in the Myyrmäki Sports Park, located in the Myyrmäki district of Vantaa, Finland. The arena gets its name from its largest sponsor, the energy company Vantaan Energia. Events The venue is able to be modified to accommodate corporate, cultural, and concert events, among others, but is best known for its athletic uses. Energia Areena is equipped to host floorball, badminton, volleyball, basketball, handball and futsal practices and games, in addition to gymnastics and cheerleading competitions. Energia Areena has served as home to the Finnish men's and women's national basketball teams since 2007. It is also home to the EräViikingit men's floorball team, which plays in the F-liiga. The venue also hosted the 2021 Sudirman Cup. See also *List of indoor arenas in Finland *List of indoor arenas in Nordic countries *Myyrmäki Football Stadium References Content in this article is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christo Popov
Christo Popov (born 8 March 2002) is a French badminton player who affiliate with Fos club. He was the boys' doubles European U15 and U17 Junior Champions, also won the boys' singles silver medals at the 2018 European and 2019 World Junior Championships. He reached a career high as boys' singles World Junior number 1 in January 2020. He then clinched the boys' singles title at the 2020 European Junior Championships. Personal life Christo Popov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He comes from a family featuring other professional badminton players. His father, Thomas, played for and coached the Bulgarian national team; his mother, Tzvetomira, was a national badminton referee; and his older brother, Toma Junior Popov, was a 2017 European Junior Champion. Career Christo Popov started playing badminton at the age of 5. He won the European U15 and U17 Junior Champions in the boys' doubles event with Kenji Lovang in 2016 and 2017 respectively, also finished as boys' singles U15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonice Huet
Léonice Huet (born 21 May 2000) is a French badminton player. Born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, she started her career in BadBonneval club, and in 2014 joined the CLT Orléans. She won her first senior international title at the 2016 Latvia International tournament in the mixed doubles event at the age of 16. Huet was part of the national junior team that won the mixed team title at the 2017 and 2018 European Junior Championships. She participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, helps the team Omega took the silver medal in the mixed team event. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabien Delrue
Fabien Delrue (born 22 June 2000) is a French badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ... player. He won the European junior championships in boys' and mixed doubles events in 2018 and won another gold in team event also. He was also the bronze medalist in European U17 Championships team event in 2016. Achievements European Junior Championships ''Boys' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 1 runner-up) ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series tournament BWF Junior International (4 titles, 7 runners-up) ''Boys' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament : BWF Junior Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloi Adam
The Eloi are one of the two fictional post-human races, along with the Morlocks, in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel ''The Time Machine''. In H. G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'' By the year AD 802,701, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi live a banal life of ease on the surface of the Earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing, and inventory for the Eloi. The narration suggests that the separation of species may have been the result of a widening split between different social classes. With all their needs and desires perfectly fulfilled, the Eloi have slowly become dissolute and naive: they are described as smaller than modern humans, with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence. They do not perform much work, except to feed, play, and mate, and are characterized by apathy; and when Weena falls into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaud Merklé
Arnaud-Sylvain-André Merklé (born 25 April 2000) is a French badminton player from Staffelfelden. He was the boys singles European Junior Champion in 2018, and also part of the national junior team that clinched the mixed team title in 2017 and 2018. He participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and reached the boys' singles bronze medal match losing to Kodai Naraoka of Japan in the rubber game. Career In 2022, Merklé reached his first BWF World Tour final at the Syed Modi International. The final match between Merklé and his compatriot Lucas Claerbout was called off after Merklé tested positive for COVID-19. Both players were later awarded as runner-up with 5.950 ranking point. Achievements European Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' BWF World Tour The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toma Junior Popov
Toma Junior Popov (born 29 September 1998) is a French badminton player. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys' singles event. Popov made history as the first non-Danish male player to win a European Junior team gold as well as the men's singles and doubles in 2017. He joined Peter Gade, Jim Laugesen, and Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen as the only men to have ever completed the treble. He competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and claimed the men's singles bronze medal. Personal life Born in Sofia, Popov came from a badminton family. His father, Thomas, is a former Bulgarian and French national player. His brother, Christo Popov, also plays badminton. Both of them trained at the Fos-sur-Mer club. Achievements European Championships ''Men's singles'' Mediterranean Games ''Men's singles'' European Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' ''Boys' doubles'' BWF World Tour (4 titles) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Gicquel
Thom Mark Gicquel (born 12 January 1999) is a French badminton player. Born in Tours, he started playing badminton at aged six in his parents club. Gicquel made his debut in the international senior tournament at the 2015 Riga International in Latvia, finished as the men's doubles runner-up partnered with Thomas Baures. He was part of the national junior team that won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships, and made it to the gold medal in 2017. He also won the gold medal in the boys' doubles event with Toma Junior Popov. At the 2018 European Men's Team Championships, he helped the team claim the bronze medal. Teamed-up with Bastian Kersaudy, they clinched the men's doubles gold at the 2018 Mediterranean Games. He captured a bronze medal at the 2019 European Games in the mixed doubles event with Delphine Delrue. Gicquel and Delrue reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World ranking in 9 March 2021. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Achi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronan Labar
Ronan Labar (born 3 May 1989) is a French badminton player. He won the French National Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event in 2013, 2015 and 2017; also in the men's doubles event in 2014, 2015 and 2020. Achievements European Championships ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Tour The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Mixed doubles'' BWF Grand Prix The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qi Xuefei
Qi Xuefei (; born 28 February 1992) is a Chinese-born French badminton player. As a Nanjing native, Qi came to France to play a few Inter-club matches in Rostrenen in 2014. She married her physiotherapist in 2015, and decided to settle in Rostrenen. She obtained her French nationality in 2018, and at the same year, she entered the women's singles team in INSEP. Qi competed at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Achievements BWF World Tour (1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Batomene
Marie Batomene (born 10 March 1995) is a French badminton player. She started playing badminton at the age of eight, in her hometown Béthune. She was part of the national junior team that won the silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships. She clinched the women's singles national champion in 2019, where she before finished as the runners-up in 2013 and 2017. She competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and 2019 European Games. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 5 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ... tournament References External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léa Palermo
Léa Palermo (born 7 July 1993) is a French badminton player. She started playing badminton at aged 8, then joined the France national badminton team in 2006. In 2009, she won the bronze medal at the European U17 Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event. In 2010, she competed at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. In 2015, she won the Slovenia International tournament in the mixed doubles event partnered with Bastian Kersaudy. In 2016, she won French National Badminton Championships in women's doubles event. She also the runner-up at the Orleans International in the women's doubles event and at the Estonian International in the mixed doubles event. In 2017, she became the runner-up at the Estonian International partnered with Delphine Delrue. She competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, clinched the women's doubles gold with Delrue. Achievements Mediterranean Games ''Women's doubles'' BWF World Tour (1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
