BWF Awards
BWF PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD
2015 Carolina Marin (Spain) - Female Player of the Year
Helle Sofie Sagøy (Norway) - Female Para-Badminton Player of the Year
1999 Camilla Martin (Denmark)
1998 Peter Gade (Denmark)
WOMEN IN BADMINTON AWARD
2013 Kirsten Larsen (Denmark)
BWF HALL OF FAME
Conferred by the Badminton World Federation on members of the Badminton Europe national associations. The BWF Hall of Fame is to honour players and administrators who have enhanced their sport through exceptional achievements.
2009 Susan Whetnall (England)
2008 Thomas Lund (Denmark), Ethel Thomson (England)
2000 Kirsten Thorndahl (Denmark)
1999 Gillian Gilks (England), Nora Perry (England), Ulla Strand (Denmark), Margaret Tradgett (England)
1998 Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen (Denmark), Morten Frost (Denmark), Lene Køppen (Denmark), Meriel Lucas (England)
1997 Tony Ahm (Denmark), Frank Devlin (Ireland), Erland Kops (Denmark), Major John McCallum (Ireland), Ralph Nichols (England), Stellan Mohlin (Sweden), Craig Reedie (Scotland), Judy Hashman (USA/Ireland), Finn Kobbero (Denmark).
Inaugural European Members
Colonel S.S.C. Dolby APD.RE., Sir George A. Thomas, Mrs. Betty Uber, Herbert A.E. Scheele, OBE.
HERBERT SCHEELE TROPHY
Herbert Scheele Trophy is presented by BWF Council for outstanding exceptional services to badminton when such an occasion arises. The Herbert Scheele Trophy has been presented to the following Europeans:
2014 Torsten Berg (Denmark)
2009 Neil Cameron (Scotland)
2008 Tom Bacher (Denmark)
2005 Gisela Hoffmann (Germany)
2000 Arthur Jones (England)
1998 Poul-Erik Nielsen (Denmark)
1995 Judy Hashman (England)
1992 Craig Reedie (Scotland)
1990 Stellan Mohlin (Sweden)
1989 Erland Kops (Denmark)
1988 Herman Valken (Netherlands)
BWF HONORARY LIFE VICE PRESIDENTS
2011 Tom Bacher (Denmark)
1997 Arthur Jones (England)
1987 Sir Craig Reedie (Scotland
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
The Distinguished Service Award is presented by BWF Council in recognition of a long and distinguished service to the game in an international context. Such service should be exceptional and involves more than routine holding of office and/or participation in competitions and winning of trophies.
Recipients of the DSA
2014 Puzant Kassabian (Bulgaria)
2013 Mojmir Hnilica (Czech Republic)
2012 João Matos (Portugal)
2011 Roger Johansson (Sweden)
2010 Richard Eaton (England), Martijn Van Dooremalen (Netherlands), Jim McKay (Wales)
2007 Irene Delvai (Switzerland)
2005 Martijn van Dooremalen (Netherlands)
2004 Heather Nielsen (England)
2003 Dr. Truls H. Brekke (Norway)
2002 Susan Whetnall (England)
2000 Jadwiga Slawska-Szalewicz (Poland)
1998 Andrzej Szalewicz (Poland)
1997 Gerhard Salzer (Autria), Martin Andersen (Denmark), Tuomo Tennila (Finland), Riena de Beer (Netherlands)
1996 Neil Cameron (Scotland), Audrey Kinkead (Ireland)
1995 Gillian Clark (England), Gisela Hoffmann (Germany), Horst Kullnigg (Austria), Frank Wilson (England)
1993 Ciro Ciniglio (England), Hans Christian Møller (Denmark)
1991 Morten Frost (Denmark)
1989 H. L. Kenneth Brock (England), Emile ter Metz (Netherlands), Stanley Mitchell (England), Anton A.Verstoep (Netherlands)
1986 Gillian M. Gilks (England), Anthony D. Jordan (England), Finn Købbero (Denmark), Ian C. Maconachie (Ireland), Nora C. Perry (England), Michael G.Tredgett (England)
1985 Josef R. Benes (Czechoslovakia), Judy Hashman (England), Lene Køppen (Denmark), Erland Kops (Denmark), Ole Mertz (Denmark), Betty Scheele (England), Anders Segercrantz (Finland)
BWF MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD
The BWF Meritorious Service Award is presented in recognition of long and meritorious service to the game in a national context, or outstanding service as a court official.
2014 Daniel Gosset (Belgium), Dieter Kespohl (Germany), Gerd Pigola (Germany)
2013 Ronald von Hertzen (Finland), Marten Segercrantz (Finland)
2012 Abby Kumar (England), John C. Briggs (England), Linda Alvarez (Gibraltar), Barabash Mykola (Ukraine)
2011 Pontus Jantti (Finland), Alain Lemoine (France), Jean Claude Arnou (France), Jean Paul Didier (France), Philippe Marcquillies (France), Paul Vaysiere (France), Agapi Mircea (Romania), David Hinton (England), Rune B. Hansen (Norway)
2010 Edgard Verpoorten (Belgium), Cor Vanlaer (Belgium), Björn von Veh (Finland), Bert Bruno (France), Helene Bussolino (France), Marie-Christine Leroy (France), Remi Milsud (France), Pierre Emanuel Panier (France)
2009 Bjarne Eriksen (Denmark), Birgit Eriksen (Denmark), Dr David Pegg (England), Simon Archer MBE (England), Helen Troke MBE (England), Jo Goode (England), Derek Batchelor (England), Eric Brown (England), Isabelle Jobard (France)
2008 Joop Henriksen (Netherlands), Jan Mooij (Netherlands), Henri Breban (Belgium), Robert Burczyk (Belgium), Robert Mathieu (Belgium), Nicos Siamarias (Cyprus), Keith Hawthorne (England), Ben Lageweg (Netherlands)
2007 Ian Brown (Scotland), Mrs Morag McCulloch (Scotland), Edgar Michalowsky (Germany), Stefan Nyari (Romania), Stefan Laszlo (Slovakia), Josef Kover (Slovakia)
2006 Maria Iasonos (Cyprus), Suparmadi Sukardja (Hungary), Sandar Petrovis (Hungary), Hans Henrik Floe (Denmark), Zubova Inna (Russia), Russrirh Vladimir (Russia), Kurbatov Oleg (Russia), Zotov Vyachestav (Russia), Kaiser Dominique (Belgium)
2005 Patrick Franzen (Belgium), Paul Reinhard Geppert (Germany), Hans Hermann Druen (Germany), Horst Rosenstock (Germany), Manfred Schneider (Germany), Hans Werner Niesner (Germany), Wilfired Beckord (Germany), Herbert Menthey (Germany), Gunther Pax (Germany), Ole Krogdahl (Denmark), Stig Kiekegaard (Denmark), Soren Nielsen (Denmark), Giorgio Cardini (Italy), Rodolfo La Rosa (Italy), Gediminas Stankevisius (Lithuania), Vidimantas Parnarauskas (Lithuania), Jonas Sileris (Lithuania)
2004 Paul Anjelkovic (England), Georgios Georgoudis (Greece), Antanan Narvilis (Lithuania), Genadijus Plavinas (Lithuania), Juozas Spelveris (Lithuania), Madam Elyane Canal (France), Guy Canal (France), Etienne Thobois (France), Manfred Fulle (Germany), Hans Offer (Germany), Wolfgang Otte (Germany), John Havers (England), Addy Regelbrugge (Belgium), Michael Zilberman (Israel)
2003 Constantin Cios (Romania), Georges Kaiser (Belgium), Jean-Louis Kehlhoffner (France)
2002 Erik Holst Andersen (Denmark), Jean-François Aninat (France), Gilles Cavert (France), Pierre Chatellier (France), Pearl Donnelly (Ireland), Ivan Majorsky (Slovakia), Kathleen Marks (Ireland), Marie-Laure Multedo (France), Juraj Piovarci (Slovakia), Christian Pohren (France), Ernest Robinson (France)
2001 Richard Atwell (Court Officials), Costas Lazarou (Cyprus), Peter Auleitner (Austria), Michael Schneidmann (Israel), Alain Bertrand (France), Bruno Lafitte (France)
2000 John B.Alexander (England), Jose da Silva Bento (Portugal), Christoph Dejacco (Italy), Dirk Kellermann (Germany), Jahn Ahrberg (Sweden), Louis Bauwin (Belgium), Alain Citolleux (France), Lajos Csanda (Hungary), Jacques Deterville (Belgium), Mary Dinan (Ireland), Marek Idzikowski (Poland), Paul Kaiser (Belgium), Heinrich Klimetschek (Austria), Karl Knoll (Austria), Herbert Koch (Austria), Helmuth Kreulitsch (Austria), Belea Makrai (Hungary), Dirk O’Rafferty (Ireland), Sue Peard (Ireland), Janusz Rybka (Poland), Gyorgy Voros (Hugary)
1999 Tariq Farooq (Austria), Walter Breitwieser (Austria), Ingrid Swiggers (Belgium), Lucienne Stock (Belgium), Orlin Slavkov Tzvetanov (Bulgaria), Simeo Petrov Simeonov (Bulgaria), Mikis Hadjneophytou (Cyprus), Poul Rosengaard (Denmark), René Toft (Denmark), Olaf Fangel (Denmark), Cyril Konecny (Slovakia), Jaroslav Kozak (Slovakia), Filip Guldan (Slovakia), Preben Noeis (Denmark), William E.Andrew (England), Raymond Viard (France), Jean Brunet (France), Michel Deschamp (France), Siegfried Maywald (Germany), Fulvio Cucci (Italy), Lorenz Waldner (Italy), Ulf Borgstrom (Sweden)
1998 Gardar Alfonsson (Iceland), Bertil Jonsson (Sweden), Peter Birtwistle (England), Owe Kallestal (Sweden), Holst Boldt (Germany), Mary Bryan (Ireland), Joe Kinkead (Ireland), Bror Carlsson (Sweden), Jack Cooper (Ireland), Michael Donnolly (Ireland), Gérard Morel (France), David Galloway (Ireland), Kjell Persson (Sweden), Mike Gilks (England), William Simpson (Wales), Andre Guillier (France), Shiela Hannon (Ireland), Dr.Herodotos Stavrides (Cyprus), Huguette Hermier (France), Raymond Robert Hermier (France), Cyril Wilkinson (Ireland), Raymond Hogge (Belgium), Isabelle Jobard (France), Svetlana Zilberman (Israel)
1997 Colin Atkinson (Scotland), Ryszard Borek (Poland), Macdonald Henderson (Scotland), Suski Jerzy (Poland), Ryszard Lachman (Poland), Leslaw Markowicz (Poland), Santiago Jean Pantos (France), James Philip (Scotland), Jose Vila Pineiro (Spain), Jerzy Szulinski (Poland), Douglas Tennant (Scotland), Konstantin Vavilov (Ukraine)
1996 Stig Axelsson (Sweden), Lars Jorgen Andersen (Denmark), Douglas Carson (Ireland), Bjoern Holst-Christensen (Denmark), Tonny Holst-Christensen (Denmark), Ole Jacobsen (Denmark), Jim Kiersey (Ireland), John Larsen (Denmark), Eric Newell (Ireland), Preben Soborg (Denmark), Steen D.Sorensen (Denmark)
1995 Herman Moens (Belgium), Anthony John Winslow (England), Karlheinz Helmdach (Germany)
1993 Graham Axford (England), Jorge Barbosa Pereira da Cruz (Portugal), Janos Cserni (Hungary), Laszo Illes (Hungary), Harry A. Leuchars (Scotland), Terje Osthassel (Norway), Stanislaw Paszkowski (Poland), Derrick Roarty (Scotland), Ronald M.Robertson (Scotland), Allan H.R.Robinson (Scotland)
1992 Robert Samuel Colhoun (Ireland), Richard Fifield (Wales), Claude McLindon (Ireland), Andrew M.Montegriffo (Gibraltar), Alois Patek (Czechoslovakia)
1991 Lizbeth von Barnekow (Denmark), Jorgen Brix Steby (Denmark), Henning Burton Clausen (Denmark), Gunther Flux (Austria), John Hansen (Denmark), Anataloij Dmitrievich Ivanov (USSR), Franz Krag (Denmark), Frede Kruse-Christiansen (Denmark), Vadim Vladimirovich Novodvorsky (USSR), Hans Schuster (Austria), Bent Vedso (Denmark)
1990 Waclaw Blonski (Poland), Monika Cassens (GDR), Julian Krzewinski (Poland), Roger van Meerbeek (Belgium), Leslie Alexander Moore (England), Werner Seufzer (GDR), Jadwiga Slawska (Poland)
1989 Wolfgang Bochow (FR Germany), Willi Braun (FR Germany), Hilton James Brown (Wales), Christine M.Cant (Scotland), Irmgard Gerlatzka (FR Germany), Pjuzant Ovanes Kassabian (Bulgaria), Horst Kullnigg (Austria), Robin Lindsay (Scotland), Jimy M.Low (Scotland), Ronnie G.MacDonald (Scotland), Tom W.Pettigrew (Scotland), Mary F.Russel (Scotland)
1987 Archie P. Archibald (England), Michael Bickmore (England), Thomas A. Bowker (England), Roland Ellidge (England), Arthur Evans (England), Boris Vladimirovich Glebovich (USSR), Kenneth Hylton Herrick (England), Dorothy Hinchcliff (England), Frank Eric Hinchcliff (England), Michael Ronald Edward Hyde (England), Denil Jordeson (England), Eric Johnn Kinsman (England), Barry Norman Lloyd (England), Harold Hardiman Lord (England), Norman Paine (England), Stanley Gordon Pine (Wales), Michael Ernest Powell (England), Geoffrey Walter Rofe (England), Muriel Leila Sadler (England), Petr Srbek (Czechoslovakia), Kenneth George Stott (England), Geoffrey Trapnell (Ireland), Edwin Henrry White (England), Andrzej Szalewicz (Poland), Sidney Edward Andrew (England), Arthur Greaves (England, Truls Haugar Brekke (Norway), Neville Rosslyn James McFarlane (England)
1986 Heinz Barge (Germany), Yosef Geffen (Israel), Axel Hansen (Denmark), Hans Hansen (Denmark), Roland Maywald (German), Marie-Luise Zizmann (Germany)
1985 Endre Fodor (Hungary), Erik Jorgensen (Denmark), Raoul Neyns (Belgium), Pal Razso (Hungary), Robert E.Servais (Belgium), Jorn Skaarup (Denmark), Norman Worley (Malta)