Arctic Open

The Arctic Open (known as Finnish International until 2013), is an international open badminton tournament held in Finland since 1990. It was halted in 1994, 1995, and between 1997 and 2001. In 2014, a second international tournament, the Finnish International, was introduced while the original event was renamed the Finnish Open. From 2023 onwards, it has been part of the BWF World Tour Super 500, under the title Arctic Open.^[1]

Arctic Open

Official website
Founded	1990; 35 years ago (1990)
Editions	25 (2025)
Location	Vantaa (2025) Finland
Venue	Energia Areena (2025)
Prize money	US$475,000 (2025)
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Chou Tien-chen (singles) Ben Lane Sean Vendy (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Joachim Persson
Most doubles titles	2 Kim Astrup Evgenij Isakov Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Akane Yamaguchi (singles) Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan (doubles)
Most singles titles	2 Han Yue Pernille Nedergaard
Most doubles titles	4 Misato Aratama Petya Nedelcheva Marlene Thomsen Akane Watanabe
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin
Most titles (male)	2 Feng Yanzhe Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Most titles (female)	3 Lena Grebak
Super 500
Arctic Open Australian Open Hong Kong Open Hylo Open Indonesia Masters Japan Masters Korea Open Malaysia Masters Thailand Open
Last completed
2025 Arctic Open

Previous winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1990	Morten Frost	Pernille Nedergaard	Imay Hendra Bagus Setiadi	Christine Magnusson Maria Bengtsson	Thomas Lund Pernille Dupont
1991	Liu Jun	Tang Jiuhong	Chen Kang Chen Hongyong	Nettie Nielsen Gillian Clark	Henrik Svarrer Maria Bengtsson
1992	Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen	Pernille Nedergaard	Peter Axelsson Pär-Gunnar Jönsson	Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen Marlene Thomsen	Max Gandrup Marlene Thomsen
1993	Peter Espersen	Camilla Martin	Christian Jakobsen Henrik Svarrer	Marlene Thomsen Camilla Martin	Jan-Eric Antonsson Astrid Crabo
1994– 1995	No competition
1996	Rikard Magnusson	Joanne Muggeridge	Ian Pearson James Anderson	Kelly Morgan Joanne Muggeridge	James Anderson Emma Chaffin
1997– 2001	No competition
2002[2]	Kasperi Salo	Anu Weckström	Evgenij Isakov Andrei Zholobov	Elin Bergblom Johanna Persson	Konstantin Dobrev Petya Nedelcheva
2003[3]		Huaiwen Xu	Victor Maljutin Mikhail Kell	Kamila Augustyn Nadieżda Kostiuczyk	Thomas Laybourn Julie Houmann
2004[4]	Hidetaka Yamada	Jiang Yanmei	Evgenij Isakov Sergey Ivlev	Neli Boteva Petya Nedelcheva	Andrei Konakh Olga Konon
2005[5]	Joachim Persson	Susan Hughes	Henrik Andersson Fredrik Bergström	Sandra Marinello Kathrin Piotrowski	Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Kostiuczyk
2006[6]		Petra Overzier	Jonas Rasmussen Peter Steffensen	Ekaterina Ananina Anastasia Russkikh	Jonas Rasmussen Britta Andersen
2007[7]		Li Wenyan	Frédéric Mawet Wouter Claes	Mie Schjøtt-Kristensen Christinna Pedersen	Tim Dettmann Annekatrin Lillie
2008[8]	Martin Bille Larsen	Elizabeth Cann	Fran Kurniawan Rendra Wijaya	Lena Frier Kristiansen Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Fran Kurniawan Shendy Puspa Irawati
2009[9]	Peter Mikkelsen	Juliane Schenk	Chen Hung-ling Lin Yu-lang	Valeria Sorokina Nina Vislova	Vitalij Durkin Nina Vislova
2010[10]	Raul Must	Anastasia Prokopenko	Sébastien Vincent Laurent Constantin	Barbara Matias Élisa Chanteur	Mikkel Delbo Larsen Mie Schjøtt-Kristensen
2011	No competition
2012[11]	Rajiv Ouseph	Yao Jie	Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov	Alex Bruce Michelle Li	Chris Adcock Imogen Bankier
2013[12]		Carolina Marín	Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi	Imogen Bankier Petya Nedelcheva	Anders Skaarup Rasmussen Lena Grebak
2014[13]	Emil Holst	Line Kjærsfeldt	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	Line Damkjær Kruse Marie Røpke
2015[14]	Vladimir Malkov	Beatriz Corrales	Andrew Ellis Peter Mills	Heather Olver Lauren Smith	Anatoliy Yartsev Evgeniya Kosetskaya
2016[15]	Kanta Tsuneyama	Anna Thea Madsen	Mathias Christiansen David Daugaard	Misato Aratama Akane Watanabe	Mathias Christiansen Lena Grebak
2017[16]	Rasmus Gemke	Shiori Saito	Liao Min-chun Su Cheng-heng		Tseng Min-hao Hu Ling-fang
2018[17]	Leong Jun Hao	Gregoria Mariska Tunjung	Akbar Bintang Cahyono Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani	Asumi Kugo Megumi Yokoyama	Alfian Eko Prasetya Marsheilla Gischa Islami
2019[18]	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	Julie Dawall Jakobsen	Muhammad Shohibul Fikri Bagas Maulana	Erina Honda Nozomi Shimizu	Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto Lisa Ayu Kusumawati
2020[19]	Cancelled[note 1]
2021[20]	Cancelled[note 2]
2022[21]	Cancelled[note 3]
2023	Lee Zii Jia	Han Yue	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	Liu Shengshu Tan Ning	Feng Yanzhe Huang Dongping
2024	Chou Tien-chen		Goh Sze Fei Nur Izzudin
2025		Akane Yamaguchi	Ben Lane Sean Vendy	Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin

1. This tournament, originally to be played from 2 to 5 April, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.
2. This tournament, originally to be played from 16 to 19 September, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.
3. This tournament, originally to be played from 28 September to 1 October, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.

Performances by nation

As of 2025 edition

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Denmark	10	6	5	5.5	8	34.5
2	China	1	4	1	2	3	11
	England	2	2	3	2	2	11
4	Russia	1	1	4	2	2	10
5	Indonesia		1	4		3	8
	Japan	2	2		4		8
7	Sweden	1		2	2	1.5	6.5
8	Chinese Taipei	2		2		1	5
	Germany		3		1	1	5
	Malaysia	2		2	1		5
11	Finland	2	1				3
12	Bulgaria				1.5	1	2.5
13	France			1	1		2
	Poland				1	1	2
	Scotland		1		0.5	0.5	2
	Spain		2				2
17	Belarus					1	1
	Belgium			1			1
	Canada				1		1
	Estonia	1					1
	Netherlands		1				1
	Thailand	1					1
	Singapore		1				1
24	Wales				0.5		0.5
Total		25	25	25	25	25	125