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Greece International
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. In 2006, the tournament was known as Hellas International, and in season 2007/2008 it was introduced again in the European circuit as an BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ... with the total pursue $5,000. Previous winners The table below gives an overview of the winners at the tournament. Performances by nation Updated after the 2021 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side. The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies differently from the balls used in many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Petrov (badminton)
Georgi Petrov ( bg, Георги Петров; born 19 July 1980) is a Bulgarian badminton player. Petrov is a 5-time national champion. He has won several tournaments in Cyprus, Greece & Israel. In 2003 and 2007 he took part in the Badminton World Championships. Achievements IBF/BWF International ''Men's singles'' ''Men'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 1980 births Living people Bulgarian male badminton players 21st-century Bulgarian people {{Bulgaria-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Kellogg
Donna Victoria Kellogg, (born 20 January 1978) is an English former badminton player. She is the European Champion, winning the women's doubles titles in 2000, 2006 and the mixed doubles title in 2008. She won the silver medal at the 2006 World Championships. Kellogg also won the women's doubles title at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and was part of the England winning team at the 1998 and 2002 Commonwealth Games. Career Kellogg first played badminton at the age of 10. Her first representative match for England was against China at the 1997 World Championships in Scotland. The best performances of her career are winning the European women's doubles gold medal in 2000 with Joanne Goode and in 2006 with Gail Emms. Kellogg's highest world ranking is fourth in women's doubles with a national ranking of first in the same event. 1998 Commonwealth Games She represented England and won two gold medals (women's doubles and team) and a bronze medal (mixed doubles), at the 1998 Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 23 July 1977) is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments. A badminton player since the age of four, Emms was first chosen to represent England in 1995 and regularly played for her country until her retirement from professional sport in 2008. Her best results were winning gold at the 2006 IBF World Championships, 2006 World Championships in Madrid, 2004 European Badminton Championships, 2004 European Championships in Geneva, and a silver medal at the Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympic Games, partnering Nathan Robertson in the mixed doubles. At the Badminton at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester she won a bronze medal with Joanne Goode in the women's doubles and won gold as part of the England team in the mixed team event. In the English National Badminton Championships, English National Championships she won the mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Clark (badminton)
Anthony Ian Clark (born 1 November 1977) is an English former badminton player. He is a mixed and men's doubles silver medalists at the 2006 World Championships. Clark won the mixed doubles title at the 2008 European Championships, and was part of the England winning team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Career 2004 Summer Olympics Clark competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Nathan Robertson. They defeated Patapol Ngernsrisuk and Sudket Prapakamol of Thailand in the first round, then were defeated in the round of 16 by Eng Hian and Flandy Limpele of Indonesia. 2006 World Champs Clark reached the mixed doubles final at the 2006 IBF World Championships together with Donna Kellogg, losing the final against Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson. He also lost the men's doubles final in the same event together with Robert Blair. 2008 Olympics Currently living in Coalville, Leicestershire, Clark represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Blair (badminton)
Robert Blair (born 7 August 1981) is a Scottish badminton player. Blair was born in Scotland, but after attending Loughborough University in Leicestershire, he competed for England from 2001 until 2010, except at the Olympic Games, where Scotland and England are both parts of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team. His main motivation for changing nation was the prospect of medals at the Commonwealth Games. On 16 December 2010 Badminton England and Badminton Scotland announced that Blair would be returning to Scotland. The reason(s) for Blair's return to Scotland remain unclear, but reports suggest a falling-out with members of the Badminton England setup was central to the decision. Career Blair competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Natalie Munt. They defeated Tadashi Ohtsuka and Shizuka Yamamoto of Japan in the first round but lost to Nova Widianto and Vita Marissa of Indonesia in the round of 16. Blair reached the men's double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huaiwen Xu
Huaiwen Xu (; born 2 August 1975) is a German badminton player. Born in Guiyang, Guizhou, China, she decided to play for Germany because the Chinese thought that she was too short to play professional world badminton.Said by David Mercer/ Gillian Clark on August 13, 2008 in match against Xie Xingfang in the quarterfinals of the women's singles shown on the BBC. Career Xu was among the most successful of a number of Chinese-born female players who emigrated from their badminton-rich homeland, in part, for a better opportunity to play in the world's biggest events. Beginning in 2003 when she won a spate of middle tier open tournaments in Europe, Xu went on to become one of the more consistent performers on the international circuit. She was a women's singles bronze medalist twice at the BWF World Championships (2005 and 2006) and won European Championships in 2006 and 2008 over Mia Audina and Tine Rasmussen respectively in the finals. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Xu was eliminated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Christian Kaldau
Niels Christian Kaldau (born 22 December 1974) is a male badminton player from Denmark. Career Kaldau won the Portuguese Badminton Champs in 1998, 2002 and 2003, the German Open in 2002, the Bitburger Open The Hylo Open, formerly known as the BMW Badminton Cup, BMW Open, Bitburger Masters, Bitburger Open and SaarLorLux Open, is an international badminton tournament held at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, Germany, since 1988. It was sponsored by t ... in 2004 and the Spanish International Badminton Tournament in 2005. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's singles. Achievements IBF World Grand Prix The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006. ''Men's singles'' IBF International ''Men's singles'' References External linksBWF Player Profile Danish male badminton players 1974 births Living people {{Denmark-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Olariu
Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name Alexandra was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek ( or //), written in the Linear B syllabic script.Tablet MY V 659 (61). Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken. Variants * Alejandra, Alejandrina ( diminutive) (Spanish) * Aleksandra (Александра) ( Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian) * Alessandra (Italian) * Alessia (Italian) * Alex (various languages) * Alexa (E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florentina Petre
Florentina can refer to: *Saint Florentina, Spanish saint * Andreea Florentina Grigore, a Romanian artistic gymnast *Florentina Bunea, Romanian statistician *Florentina Marincu, Romanian track and field athlete *Florentina Mosora, Romanian and Belgian biophysicist *Florentina Nedelcu, Romanian female volleyball player *Florentina Spânu, Romanian football player *Mother Ascensión Nicol Goñi, also known as Florentina Nicol Goñi * 321 Florentina, an asteroid *Littera Florentina *A Latin adjectival form for the city of Florence *''Malus florentina'', a species of ''Malus'' (apple) * Florentina, a fictional town in ''Sacred'' videogame. See also *Florentin (other) Florentin or Florentín (from Latin ''Florentinus'') can be a given name or surname. It is found as a given name among Romanian, German, French and Spanish speakers. The latter also use it as a surname. People Given name * Florentin Crihălmea ... * Florentine (other) {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Hückstädt
Conrad may refer to: People * Conrad (name) Places United States * Conrad, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Iowa, a city * Conrad, Montana, a city * Conrad Glacier, Washington Elsewhere * Conrad, Alberta, Canada, a former unincorporated community * Conrad Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica * Mount Conrad, Oates Land, Antarctica Businesses * Conrad Editora, a Brazilian publisher * Conrad Electronic, a German retailer * Conrad Hotels, the global luxury brand of Hilton Hotels * Conrad Models, a German manufacturer of diecast toys and promotional models Other uses * ''Conrad'' (comic strip) * CONRAD (organization), an American organization which promotes reproductive health in the developing world * ORP ''Conrad'', name of the cruiser HMS ''Danae'' (D44) while loaned to the Polish Navy (1944-1946) See also * Conradi * Conradin * Conradines * Conrads (other) * Corrado (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neli Boteva
Neli Boteva ( bg, Нели Ботева, née Nedyalkova) (born 9 May 1974) is a badminton player from Bulgaria who participated in four Olympiads in women's doubles. She first competed in the 1992 SummerOlympics as Nelly Nedyalkova in the women's doubles event with Bulgarian partner Emilia Dimitrova, née Emmy Vlaar. They were defeated by Bożena Bąk & Wioletta Wilk from Poland in the round of 32 with 16-17, 8-15. Her second participation was at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States with partner Diana Koleva where they lost in the first round to Japanese duo Tomomi Matsuo and Masako Sakamoto with 0-15, 4-15. In 2000 as Neli Boteva she participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia again with partner Diana Koleva. They were defeated by Chinese duo Gao Ling and Qin Yiyuan 1-15, 9-15. Boteva also competed in the 2004 SummerOlympics in Athens with partner Petya Nedelcheva. They were defeated by Ella Tripp and Joanne Wright of Great Britain in the round of 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
