Danes looking to redress the balance

Two years is a long time in any sport and in terms of badminton team events it has seen the dominance that Denmark has traditionally had in all European team events being eroded by their near neighbours Germany. The Germans defeated Denmark only a few weeks ago in Russia at the 2013 European Mixed Team Championships and just over a year ago the German ladies lifted the 2012 European Women’s Team Championships event in Amsterdam again consigning Denmark to the runners up spot.

Two years ago in Vantaa, Finland the U19 team from Germany lifted the European Junior Team Championships title which was the catalyst for the German revival. All that means is that Denmark, for the first time in recent history, have a minority stake holding with only two of the European Team Championships in their possession a statistic that they will be going all out to change in Ankara, Turkey in between 22nd and 26th March.
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Location of the European Championships

The table below gives an overview of all host cities and countries of the European Championships.

On January 15, 2008, Manchester of England won the bids to stage the 2010 events.^[1]

Year No. Host City Country 1968 I Bochum  West Germany 1970 II Port Talbot  Wales 1972 III Karlskrona  Sweden 1974 IV Vienna  Austria 1976 V Dublin  Ireland 1978 VI Preston  England 1980 VII Groningen  Netherlands 1982 VIII Böblingen  West Germany 1984 IX Preston  England 1986 X Uppsala  Sweden 1988 XI Kristiansand  Norway 1990 XII Moscow  Soviet Union

Year No. Host City Country 1992 XIII Glasgow  Scotland 1994 XIV Den Bosch  Netherlands 1996 XV Herning  Denmark 1998 XVI Sofia  Bulgaria 2000 XVII Glasgow  Scotland 2002 XVIII Malmö  Sweden 2004 XIX Geneva  Switzerland 2006 XX Den Bosch  Netherlands 2008 XXI Herning  Denmark 2010 XXII Manchester  England 2012 XXIII Karlskrona  Sweden