Balkan Badminton Championships

The Balkan Badminton Championships is a regional badminton tournament organized by the Balkan Badminton Association (BBA) to crown the best badminton players and teams in the Balkans. The inaugural edition of the championships was hosted in 1992 in Bucharest, Romania.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The junior team championships are divided into four different age groups, which are U19, U17, U15 and U13.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Nations participating

Greece (from 1992)
Romania (from 1992)
Bulgaria (from 1992)
Turkey (from 1992)
Moldova (from 1999)
Serbia (from 2006)
North Macedonia (from 2006)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (from 2013)
Albania (from 2013)
Croatia (from 2013)
Montenegro (from 2016)
Georgia (from 2019)

Former nations

Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2006)

Championships

Year	Number	Host City	Host Country	Events
1992	1	Bucharest	Romania	1
1993	2	Sofia	Bulgaria	6
1994	3	No data
1995	4	Kütahya	Turkey	6
1996	5	Thessaloniki	Greece
1997	6	Šabac	Serbia and Montenegro
1998	7	Istanbul	Turkey
1999	8	Argostoli	Greece
2000	9	Varna	Bulgaria
2001	10	Burgas	Bulgaria
2002	11	Argostoli	Greece
2003	12	Bucharest	Romania
2004	13	Istanbul	Turkey
2005	14	Serres	Greece
2006	15	Istanbul	Turkey
2007	16	Stara Zagora	Bulgaria
2008	17	Slănic-Moldova	Romania
2009	18	Stara Zagora	Bulgaria
2010	19	Kavarna	Bulgaria
2011	20	Polygyros	Greece

Year	Number	Host City	Host Country	Events
2012	21	Burgas	Bulgaria	6
2013	22	Burgas
2014	23	Stara Zagora
2016	24	Iași	Romania
2018	25	Orestiada	Greece

Past winners

Individual event

Year	Men's Singles	Women's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles
1992	Not held
1993
1994
1995
1996	Cancelled
1997
1998	Konstantin Dobrev	Dimitriyka Dimitrova	Konstantin Dobrev Ivan Sotirov	Diana Koleva Renni Assenova	Konstantin Dobrev Diana Koleva
1999		Neli Boteva	Konstantin Dobrev Luben Panov	Neli Boteva Dobrinka Smilianova	Konstantin Dobrev Petya Nedelcheva
2000		Neli Boteva	Konstantin Dobrev Luben Panov	Neli Boteva Petya Nedelcheva	Konstantin Dobrev Petya Nedelcheva
2001	No data
2002
2003
2004
2005	Konstantin Dobrev	Diana Dimova	Konstantin Dobrev Georgi Petrov	Dimitriyka Dimitrova Diana Dimova	Konstantin Dobrev Maya Ivanova
2006	Georgi Petrov	Diana Dimova	Stiliyan Makarski Georgi Petrov	Diana Dimova Atanaska Spasova	Stiliyan Makarski Diana Dimova
2007	Krasimir Jankov	Diana Dimova	Stiliyan Makarski Vladimir Metodiev	Diana Dimova Maya Dobreva	Stiliyan Makarski Diana Dimova
2008	Robert Ciobotaru	Dimitria Popstoikova	Konstantin Dobrev Julian Hristov	Dimitria Popstoikova Diana Dimova	Konstantin Dobrev Diana Dimova
2009	Stiliyan Makarski	Petya Nedelcheva	Kamil Akcebe Ali Kaya	Diana Dimova Petya Nedelcheva	Stiliyan Makarski Diana Dimova
2010	Krasimir Jankov	Öznur Çalışkan	Krasimir Jankov Vladimir Metodiev	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Julian Hristov Dimitria Popstoikova
2011	Ramazan Öztürk	Anne Hald Jensen	Peyo Boichinov Ivan Rusev	Dimitria Popstoikova Gabriela Stoeva	Julian Hristov Gabriela Stoeva
2012	Emre Vural	Özge Bayrak	Emre Aslan Hüseyin Oruç	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Hüseyin Oruç Ebru Tunalı
2013	Ivan Rusev	Stefani Stoeva	Marius Corciuc Ionut Gradinaru	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Stiliyan Makarski Gabriela Stoeva
2014	Blagovest Kisyov	Neslihan Yiğit	Blagovest Kisyov Peyo Boichinov	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	Blagovest Kisyov Gabriela Stoeva
2016	Ivan Rusev	Maria Delcheva	Daniel Nikolov Ivan Rusev	Maria Delcheva Alexandra Milon	Daniel Cojocaru Alexandra Milon
2018	Daniel Nikolov	Aliye Demirbağ	Daniel Nikolov Alex Vlaar	Aliye Demirbağ Neslihan Yiğit	Alex Vlaar Dimitria Popstoikova

Mixed team event

Ed.	Year	Hosts	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
Ed.	Year	Hosts	Final			Third place playoff or losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
1	1992	Romania	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	4
2	1993	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	4
3	1995	Turkey	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	5
4	1997	Serbia and Montenegro	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	5
5	1998	Turkey	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Moldova	round-robin	Turkey	6
6	1999	Greece	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Moldova	round-robin	Turkey	6
7	2000	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	6
8	2001	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	6
9	2002	Greece	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Greece	6
10	2003	Romania	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Moldova	6
11	2004	Turkey	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Turkey	round-robin	Moldova	6
12	2005	Greece	Bulgaria	3–0	Romania	Greece	3–1	Moldova	7
13	2006	Turkey	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Moldova	3–2	Romania	6
14	2007	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Romania	3–0	Greece	6
15	2008	Romania	Bulgaria	3–1	Romania	Turkey	3–0	Greece	6
16	2009	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Greece and Serbia			6
17	2010	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Romania	3–2	Moldova	6
18	2011	Greece	Bulgaria	3–1	Turkey	Greece and Serbia			6
19	2012	Bulgaria	Turkey	3–0	Bulgaria	Romania	3–0	Moldova	8
20	2013	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Romania and Serbia			7
21	2014	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	3–0	Turkey	Greece and Romania			6
22	2016	Romania	Bulgaria	round-robin	Romania	Serbia	round-robin	Moldova	4
23	2018	Greece	Bulgaria	3–2	Turkey	Greece and Serbia			6

Junior results

Team event

Venue	Country	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score	Bronze	Fourth place
		1992	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Greece
		1993	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Greece
Sofia	Bulgaria	1994	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Greece
		1995	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Greece
		1996	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Greece
Istanbul	Turkey	1997	Bulgaria	Turkey		Romania	Moldova
Sidirokastro	Greece	1998	Bulgaria	Romania		Moldova	Greece
Antalya	Turkey	1999	Romania	Bulgaria		Moldova	Turkey
		2000	Romania	Bulgaria		Turkey	Moldova
Galați	Romania	2001	Bulgaria	Romania		Moldova	Greece
		2002	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Moldova
		2003	Bulgaria	Romania		Turkey	Moldova
Thessaloniki	Greece	2004	Bulgaria	Turkey		Moldova	Romania
Varna	Bulgaria	2005	Bulgaria	Turkey		Moldova	Romania
Sofia	Bulgaria	2006	Turkey	Bulgaria	3-2	Romania	North Macedonia
Adapazarı	Turkey	2007	Bulgaria	Turkey	3-2	Romania	Greece
Bafra	Turkey	2008	Turkey	Bulgaria	3-0	Romania	Greece
Orestiada	Greece	2010	Turkey	Bulgaria		Romania
Edirne	Turkey	2011	Bulgaria	Turkey	3-0	Romania	Serbia
Manisa	Turkey	2013	Bulgaria	Turkey	3-0	North Macedonia	Greece
Karaman	Turkey	2015	Turkey	Bulgaria	3-0	Romania Serbia
Alexandroupolis	Greece	2016	Turkey	Bulgaria	4-1	Greece Serbia
Edirne	Turkey	2017	Turkey	Bulgaria	3-2	Greece Serbia
Ankara	Turkey	2019	Turkey	Serbia	3-0	Bulgaria Georgia

References

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