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Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships or Swedish International Stockholm is an annual

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 ...

tournament held in

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and hosted by Svenska Badmintonförbundet. It is part of the

European Badminton Circuit The European Badminton Circuit is a series of international badminton tournaments in Europe, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The circuit consists of BWF International Challenge, BWF International Series and BWF Future Series The BWF ...

. The tournament was started by Stockholms Badmintonförbund in 2004. Stockholms Badmintonförbund was running the tournament until 2008 and was handed over to Svenska Badmintonförbundet. The tournament was played in Sweden's capital Stockholm up until the 2013 edition. In 2014 the tournament moved to

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, about 1 hour north of

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, and was run by former Swedish player

Pär-Gunnar Jönsson Pär-Gunnar Jönsson (born 6 August 1963) is a retired badminton player from Sweden. Career He won the bronze medal at the 1993 IBF World Championships The 1993 IBF World Championships (World Badminton Championships) were held in Birmingham, ...

. The 2016 edition represented the first BE International Challenge circuit tournament with the new increased prize money from US$15,000 to US$17,000, and will reach $25,000 by 2018. The Swedish Masters tournament also has one of the most unusual tournament trophies, in a circular shape representing the ring on the cork of the shuttle, with all the names of previous winners engraved on the inside. In 2017 the tournament went back to an International Series from its previous position as an International Challenge and moved to a new home in Lund, just north of Malmo. The tournament also reverted to its original name of Swedish International from the previous three editions as the Swedish Masters. In 2018 the tournament will revert to the name of

Swedish Open (badminton) The Swedish Open is an open badminton tournament that is annually held since 2018, previously from 1956 to 2000 after which the organizer, Svenska Badmintonförbundet, could no longer find a suitable sponsor. To some extent it has been replaced by ...

, as used between 1956 and 2000. The tournament will be hosted in Lund as an International Series.

Past winners

Performances by nation

References

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External links

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