Marcel Nguyen
Marcel Van Minh Phuc Long Nguyen ( [ ŋwiɜn315 ]? / I ) ( born September 8, 1987 in Munich) is a German gymnast. His specialty disciplines in which he three times European champion in total, are parallel bars and all-around. By winning the silver medals on uneven bars and in the all around at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he is one of Germany's most successful Olympian in gymnastics.
Nguyen is a soldier, currently at the rank Corporal, since July 2007, when the sports promotion group of the German Army and trained in Stuttgart with Valeri Belenki. Nguyen took until 2012 for his hometown club TSV Unterhaching and in the Bundesliga for the KTV Straubenhardt. 1 January 2013, he joined the MTV Stuttgart.
Career
Marcel Nguyen, the son of a Vietnamese father and a German, arrived in Munich to the world and began at the age of four years with the gymnastics, seven years old, he joined the TSV Unterhaching near. Since 1995, he coached in the State Training Centre Munich, where he was country manager Kurt Szilier trained to date. Since 1997, Nguyen was part of the squad perspective, in which Andreas Hirsch and Jens Milbradt were his coach. He quickly rose to the D to the B squad. Since 2002 he started for the junior national squad. For his education attended the Isar Sportgymnasium Munich. In 2005, Nguyen German junior champion on the parallel bars, runners on the rings and third in the jump. In the same year he took in Melbourne for the first time at the World Championships in the men's part and was 16th on parallel bars. After the World Cup Nguyen moved for one year to the sports boarding school in Stuttgart in order to prepare there with his team-mate under the coaches Anatoli Jarmovski and Klaus Nigl at the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus. These World Championships, the team finished in seventh place.
After the 2006 World Championships Nguyen moved back to the sports school to Munich, where he obtained a high school in June 2007. A few months later, he took part with the team at the World Championships in Stuttgart and won the bronze medal, which simultaneously meant the qualification of the gymnastics team for the Olympic Games there. End of the year was Nguyen third parties on the ground at the World Cup in Tokyo. 2008 Nguyen reached the second rank with the German team at the European Championships in Lausanne. At the German Championships three times he stood on the podium. The highlight was the Olympic Games in Beijing, where the German team was defeated by the U.S. in the fight for the bronze medal scarce. In 2009, Nguyen recorded his first success as a multi- fighters: In the Champions Trophy in Stuttgart, he took second place, just as in the subsequent DM The same year he also won with his Bundesliga club KTV Straubenhardt the German championship. At the European Championships 2010 in Birmingham Marcel Nguyen was a member of the German team that won the title for the first time. He won a bronze medal to the floor. With the national title in the all around Nguyen qualified in the same year for the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam, but where he could not attend because he had previously broken his fibula in a country fight.
The Gymnastics European Championships 2011 in Berlin Nguyen won the gold medal on the parallel bars as the first German after Helmut Bantz 1955. Moreover, he took the bronze medal on the horizontal bar. A year later he defended in Montpellier the European title on the parallel bars. In 2012 he was nominated for the London Olympics and won in the individual all-around silver medal behind Japanese Kohei Uchimura Olympic champion. It was the first individual all-around medal for a male German Turner for 76 years. 1936 last won Alfred Schwarzmann and Konrad Frey Gold and Bronze. In the individual competition at the bars he could also win silver behind the Chinese Feng Zhe. Again, the gain of an Olympic medal by a German Turner, Sven Tippelt stood at the Summer Olympics in 1988, just 24 years ago. In April 2013, Nguyen won the overall title of the World Cup series. At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he did not participate for reasons of regeneration.
Awards
- 2012: Athlete of the Year, 3rd place
- 2012: Silver bay leaf