Marc Zwiebler
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Marc Zwiebler ( born March 13, 1984 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg) is a German badminton player.
Private
Zwiebler is the son of former badminton player Eva -Maria Zwiebler and Karl -Heinz Zwiebler. He grew up in city of Bonn and lives since 2004 in Saarbrücken to train at the Olympic Training Center there. He studied business administration in 2008 at the HTW Saarland.
Overview
In the men's singles Zwiebler is the reigning European champion, reigning German number 1 and number 11 in the world rankings. In his career he won the European Championship individual and mixed with the national team once each. In addition, seven German Championships, a Grand Prix title, ten titles of European competition series Badminton Europe Circuit and an international title. At the European Championships 2012 in Karlskrona, he won gold with 21:15, 21:13 via local hero Henri Hurskainen. Two years earlier he reached beside the British Rajiv Ouseph bronze at the European Championships 2010. 2013 he was European champion team. With the knockout collection at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the finals at the Denmark Open 2009, a tournament of the highest-level competition series Super Series, Zwiebler was Germany's most successful badminton player of all time.
Career and title in detail
Zwiebler began playing at the age of six years at the 1st BC Beuel badminton. Soon he was regarded as the greatest German talent: He was 19 times German Youth and Junior Champion, 2003, he was Under-19 European Champion and won his first international title at the seniors.
In spring 2005 Zwiebler was the first time German champion in men's singles, while he beat in the final of the triumphant annually since 2000 Björn Joppien from Langenfeld in three sets. A few months later he was plagued by pain in the back, he thought of an ordinary sore muscles until the pain had worsened dramatically and he could no longer play just before Christmas 2005. The diagnosis was herniated disc. His career was in jeopardy and thus straightened his dream of competing at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the distance. After an operation in late 2006 and six months rehabilitation and fitness training with a total of one and a half year absence, he started the comeback after Olympic qualification. Following the forced break, he was no longer listed in the world rankings, but within eight months he fought, among other things with six BE- Circuit titles at No. 27 in the world rankings and allowed himself to make participation in the Olympic Games. For this he was appointed in early 2008 by the WDR for " comebackers of the Year".
At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Zwiebler beat in the first round Scott Evans of Ireland and in the second round Andrew Smith of England in three sets. As the first German player ever, he moved there a first knockout round, but then lost to Lee Hyun- il from South Korea in straight sets.
In the Denmark Open Super Series 2009 Zwiebler defeated, himself unset, the set at position four Wong Choong Hann of Malaysia in the first round in three sets, which is for the SG EBT Berlin in the first badminton league in use. It was followed by a victory over the unseeded compatriot Muhammad Hafiz Hashim in three sets before he clearly won in straight sets in the second round against the set at position eight Chen Long from China. In the semifinals, he eventually triumphed over the reigning bronze medalist and world vice- champion of 2007 Sony Dwi Kuncoro from Indonesia in three sets. In the final, his compatriot Simon Santoso, however, was too strong for Zwiebler and he lost in straight sets.
In the prestigious All England Open 2011 Zwiebler beat in the second round the reigning world champion Chen Jin of China in straight sets, but failed in the semi-final on the Olympic champion in Beijing 2008 and world champion Lin Dan from China in three sets.
In July 2011 Zwiebler won the Canadian Open, and thus his first Grand Prix title, but he defeated in the final of the Olympic champion from Athens 2004 and 2005 World Champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in straight sets, he ten days earlier in the quarterfinals of the U.S. might be open.
In 2012 he won the German National Men's silver medal at the European Team Championship. In the same year he celebrated his biggest success so far, as without dropping a set, he won the gold medal in the Single European Championships in Karlskrona, Sweden.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Zwiebler struck in the group stage to run at this time of world ranking 209 Mohamed Rasheed Ajfan of the Maldives and the Ukrainian champion Dmytro Zavadsky. With the defeat against the Chinese Chen Jin, he retired four years ago in Beijing from in the second round.
Zwiebler was crowned in the years 2008 to 2012 in the German Badminton Association and the journal " Badminton " advertised voted " Player of the Year ."
In the Russian Ramenskoje Zwiebler won together with the mixed national team with a final victory over Denmark 3-0 the European Team Championship in 2013. After the German Women's national team for the first time won gold in 2012, was in the over 40 -year history of the tournament for the first time a German mixed selection team European Champion.
In June 2013 Zwiebler posted by the finals at the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier 9350 points and thus the most world ranking points in his career for themselves. For comparison, the income of the Olympic Games or winning the Individual World Championship brings 12,000 points for the world ranking. His prize was won 26,600 U.S. dollars.