Mia Blichfeldt
Mia Blichfeldt is a Danish badminton player. She won the gold medals at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the girls' singles event, and later at the [Badminton at the Badminton at the 2019 European Games – Women's singles|2019 European Games|2019 Minsk European Games] in the women's singles event.
Career summary
Blichfeldt started to play badminton at the Solrød Strand badminton club at the age of nine, and began playing competitively at the age of eleven. She made her international debut in 2013, representing her country at the 2013, 2014, 2015 World Junior Championships, and [Badminton at the 2014 BWF World Junior Championships|2014 Summer Youth Olympics|2014 Summer Youth Olympics]. She won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the girls' singles event, also helping her team take the bronze.At the age of sixteen, she claimed her first international title at the 2013 Norwegian International, beating top seed Olga Golovanova of Russia in the final. In 2014, she won the Danish National Championships.
In 2017, she reached the final of the Scottish Open, but lost in the final to host player Kirsty Gilmour with a score of 21–23, 12–21.
In 2018, Blichfeldt reached the semi-finals of the European Championships, but was stopped by the host player and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Carolina Marín, thus having to settle for a bronze medal. At the same year, she won her first Super 100 title at the Dutch Open, when she defeated Qi Xuefei with a score of 21–16, 21–18.
In 2019, Blichfeldt won the Spain Masters, a Super 300 tournament, by beating compatriot Line Kjærsfeldt with a score of 21–14, 21–14 in the final. She clinched the gold at the 2019 Minsk European Games, defeating Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour with a score of 21–16, 21–17. At the 2019 BWF World Championships, she made her first-ever World Championship quarterfinal by beating eighth seed Saina Nehwal in the Round of 16. However, she lost in the quarterfinals to the Chinese fourth seed and eventual bronze medallist Chen Yufei.
In 2020, Blichfeldt along with the Denmark team won the 2020 European Women's Team Championships.
In 2021, Blichfeldt competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she was seeded thirteenth. She topped her group in the Group Stage, beating Bulgaria's Linda Zetchiri and Australia's Chen Hsuan-yu, to make the Round of 16. However, she lost in the Round of 16 to the then reigning World Champion and eventual bronze medallist P. V. Sindhu of India. She also represented Denmark at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In January 2026, during the India Open, Blichfeldt criticized the condition of the Indira Gandhi Arena in New Delhi.
Achievements
European Games
Women's singles| Year | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Falcon Club, Minsk, Belarus |  European ChampionshipsWomen's singles
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