1998 Denmark Open
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The 1998 Denmark Open
Denmark Open
The Denmark Open, or formerly known as Danish Open, is an annual badminton tournament held in Denmark and organized by Danmarks Badminton Forbund.- History :...

in badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 was held in Vejle
Vejle
Vejle is a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle and Grejs Rivers and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality and the Region of Southern Denmark...

, from October 14 to October 18, 1998. It was a four-star tournament and the prize money was USD$120,000.

Final results

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Peter Gade
Peter Gade
Peter Høeg Gade is a Danish professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen...

  Dong Jiong
Dong Jiong
Dong Jiong is a Chinese badminton player who ranked among the world's men's singles elite in the mid and late 1990s.-Career:In a relatively short career at the top level, Dong won some of badminton's biggest events, including the prestigious All-England and Denmark Open titles in 1997...

15–8, 17–14
Women's singles   Camilla Martin
Camilla Martin
Camilla Martin Nygaard née Martin is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All-England and World singles titles....

  Ye Zhaoying
Ye Zhaoying
Ye Zhaoying is a retired women's singles badminton player from Zhejiang, the People's Republic of China who rates as one of the finest that China or any nation has produced. Officially ranked as the number one player in the world for the first time in December 1995, she lost but regained that...

13–10, 11–8
Men's doubles   Rexy Mainaky
Rexy Mainaky
Rexy Ronald Mainaky is a former men's doubles badminton world champion from Indonesia who is often simply known as Rexy. He won the men doubles Olympic gold medal in 1996 with Ricky Subagja.- Career :...

 & Ricky Subagja
Ricky Subagja
Ricky Ahmad Subagja is a Bandung, Indonesia born former world-class badminton player. He rates among the greatest doubles specialists in the sport's history.-Career:...

  Flandy Limpele
Flandy Limpele
Flandy Limpele is a male badminton player from Indonesia.- Career :A doubles specialist, at various times Limpele has focused on either men's doubles or mixed doubles during his long career in international badminton. His earliest appearances in the final rounds of major events came in mixed...

 & Eng Hian
Eng Hian
Eng Hian is a Chinese Indonesian male badminton player. A men's doubles specialist, he won major international tournaments, most of them in partnership with Flandy Limpele, between 1999 and 2006. They earned a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 2004 Olympics in Athens...

15–11, 15–6
Women's doubles   Qin Yiyuan
Qin Yiyuan
Qin Yiyuan is a Chinese former world level women's badminton player.-Career:A doubles specialist, Qin played internationally for China from the mid 1990s through the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, a period during which her fellow countrywomen Ge Fei and Gu Jun dominated international women's doubles...

 & Tang Hetian
  Huang Nanyan
Huang Nanyan
Huang Nanyan is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A women's doubles specialist, Huang won a number of top tier titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first of these came at the 1997 Asian Badminton Championships with Liu Zhong...

 & Yang Wei
Yang Wei (badminton)
Yang Wei is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. Yang grew up in Guangdong.-Career:A woman's doubles specialist, Yang has won some forty international titles, most of them in the sport's top tier events, since 1998...

15–17, 15–10, 15–11
Mixed doubles   Jon Holst-Christensen
Jon Holst-Christensen
Jon Holst-Christensen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark.-Summer Olympics:Jon Holst-Christensen competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with Thomas Lund...

 & Ann Jorgensen
  Michael Sogaard & Rikke Olsen
Rikke Olsen
-2004 Summer Olympics:Olsen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Ann-Lou Jørgensen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Nicole Grether and Juliane Schenk of Germany in the second...

15–6, 15–14
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