Marc Zwiebler

Marc Zwiebler
Zwiebler in 2012 dressing up the Olympic team in Mainz
Country:	Germany
Date of birth:	March 13, 1984
Place of birth:	Bonn - Bad Godesberg
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	73 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Left
Trainer:	Jacob Øhlenschlæger Xuyan Wang
BWF ID:	50858
Men's singles
Career record:	357: 184
Career title:	17th
Highest ranking:	10 (September 26, 2013)
Current placement:	15th
Men's doubles
Career record:	19:23
mixed double
Career record:	0: 3
Medals
Country: Germany  badminton BE - European Championships gold Karlskrona 2012 singles bronze Manchester 2010 singles bronze La Roche-sur-Yon 2016 singles BE - European Team Championship gold Ramenskoye 2013 Mixed silver Amsterdam 2011 Mixed silver Amsterdam 2012 Men's bronze Almere 2008 Men's bronze Warsaw 2010 Men's bronze Basel 2014 Men's bronze Kazan 2016 Men's German Championships ( DBV ) gold Bielefeld 2005 singles gold Bielefeld 2008 singles gold Bielefeld 2009 singles gold Bielefeld 2010 singles gold Bielefeld 2011 singles gold Bielefeld 2012 singles gold Bielefeld 2013 singles gold Bielefeld 2015 singles gold Bielefeld 2016 singles silver Bielefeld 2016 Mixed bronze Bielefeld 2003 singles bronze Bielefeld 2009 Double EBU - European Youth Championships gold Esbjerg 2003 singles
BWF profile
As of June 22, 2016

Marc Zwiebler (born March 13, 1984 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg ) is a German badminton player .

Private

Zwiebler is the son of the former badminton players Eva-Maria and Karl-Heinz Zwiebler . He grew up in Bonn - Beuel and has lived in Saarbrücken since 2004 to train at the Olympic base there. From 2008 he studied business administration , first at the HTW des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, later in distance learning at the IUBH in Bad Honnef . After completing his studies, he co-founded a company for management consultancy in human resource management.

overview

In the men's singles, Zwiebler was temporarily the German number 1 and number 10 in the world rankings. In his career so far, he has been able to win the European Championship individually and with the mixed national team. In addition, there are nine German championships (record), one Grand Prix title , 14 titles in the European Badminton Europe Circuit competition series and one international title. In 2011 he reached the semi-finals at All England . At the European Championships in Karlskrona in 2012 he won gold with 21:15, 21:13 over local hero Henri Hurskainen . Two years earlier, he achieved bronze at the 2010 European Championships alongside Briton Rajiv Ouseph . In 2013 he was European team champion. With the round of 16 at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and participation in the finals at the Denmark Open 2009 , a tournament in the top-tier BWF World Superseries series , Zwiebler became Germany's most successful badminton player of all time.

Career and title in detail

Zwiebler comes from a badminton family: his parents Eva-Maria and Karl-Heinz Zwiebler were multiple German champions in singles and doubles. The Erwin-Kranz-Halle, home of the Bundesliga club 1. BC Beuel , is named after his maternal grandfather. At the age of six he started playing badminton at 1. BC Beuel. He was soon considered to be the greatest German talent: he was German youth and junior champion 19 times, in 2003 he was European youth champion and won his first international senior title. In his younger years, Zwiebler was also a very talented footballer in addition to the badminton sport . He played at SV Beuel 06 and was courted by 1. FC Köln when he was ten . But he decided entirely to play badminton.

In the spring of 2005 Zwiebler became German champion in the men's singles for the first time, beating Björn Joppien from Langenfeld, who has been triumphant every year since 2000, in three sets in the final . A few months later he was plagued by pain in his back, he thought of normal sore muscles until the pain had worsened drastically and shortly before Christmas 2005 he could no longer play. The diagnosis was a herniated disc . His career was in jeopardy and his dream of participating in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was a long way off. After an operation at the end of 2006 and six months of rehabilitation and rehabilitation training with a total of one and a half years of abstinence, he started to catch up after the Olympic qualification. After the compulsory break he was no longer listed in the world rankings, but within eight months he fought his way to number 27 in the world rankings with six BE Circuit titles and thus enabled himself to participate in the Olympic Games. In early 2008 he was named "Comebacker of the Year" by WDR .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Zwiebler beat Scott Evans from Ireland in the first round and Andrew Smith from England in the second round in three sets. He was the first German player to make it to the last sixteen, but then lost to Lee Hyun-il from South Korea in straight sets.

At the Denmark Open 2009 Zwiebler, who was unset himself, defeated Wong Choong Hann from Malaysia , who was seeded fourth, in the first round in three sets. This was followed by a victory over his unseed compatriot Muhammad Hafiz Hashim in three sets, before he clearly won in two sets in the round of 16 against Chen Long from China, who was eighth . In the semifinals he finally won over this year's World Cup third and vice world champion of 2007 Sony Dwi Kuncoro from Indonesia in three sets. In the final, however, his compatriot Simon Santoso was too strong for Zwiebler and he lost in two sets.

At the prestigious All England 2011 , Zwiebler defeated the reigning world champion Chen Jin from China in two sets in the round of 16 , but failed in the semifinals against Lin Dan from China in three sets against the Olympic champion in Beijing 2008 .

In July 2011 Zwiebler won the Canada Open and with it his first Grand Prix title, beating the 2004 Olympic champion in Athens and 2005 world champion Taufik Hidayat from Indonesia in two sets, whom he had already ten days earlier in the US quarter-finals Open could beat.

In 2012 he won the silver medal at the European team championship with the German men's national team. In the same year he celebrated his greatest success to date when he won the gold medal at the individual European championships in Karlskrona, Sweden, without losing a set.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Zwiebler defeated Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed from the Maldives and the Ukrainian champion Dmytro Zavadsky, who was in 209 position in the world at the time, in the group stage . With the defeat against the Chinese Chen Jin , he was eliminated in the round of 16, just like four years ago in Beijing.

In Ramenskoje , Russia , Zwiebler and the mixed national team won the 2013 European Team Championship with a 3-0 final victory over Denmark . After the German women's national team won gold for the first time in 2012, a German mixed selection became European team champions for the first time in the more than 40-year history of the tournament.

In June 2013 Zwiebler scored 9,350 points by reaching the finals at the Indonesia Open and thus the most world ranking points of his career. For comparison, winning the Olympic Games or winning the Individual World Championship brings 12,000 points for the world rankings . His won prize money amounted to 26,600 US dollars .

Between 2008 and 2013, Zwiebler was named “Player of the Year” in the election of the German Badminton Association and the specialist magazine “Badminton Sport”.

On November 3, 2017, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements .

Achievements in tables

Men's singles

Zwiebler at the 2011 US Open in Orange , California

result	year	Place / tournament	opponent	Result
Olympic games
9./16.	2008	Beijing	Lee Hyun-il	13:21, 11:21
9./16.	2012	London	Chen Jin	21:19, 12:21, 9:21
	2016	Rio de Janeiro
IBF / BWF - world championships
9./16.	2010	Paris	Peter Høeg Gade	14:21, 15:21
9./16.	2013	Guangzhou	Tommy Sugiarto	19:21, 14:21
17./32.	2009	Hyderabad	Ken'ichi Tago	15:21, 10:21
17./32.	2011	London	Pablo Abián	17:21, 21: 7, 22:24
17./32.	2014	Copenhagen	Chen Long	11:21, 10:21
17./32.	2015	Jakarta	Lee Chong Wei	14:21, 21:17, 8:21
33./64.	2005	Anaheim	Tiến Minh Nguyễn	13:15, 16:17
EBU / BE - European Championships
gold	2012	Karlskrona	Henri Hurskainen	21:15, 21:13
bronze	2010	Manchester	Peter Høeg Gade	21:18, 12:21, 17:21
bronze	2016	La Roche-sur-Yon	Viktor Axelsen	10:21, 21:23
17./32.	2008	Herning	Dieter Domke	15:21, 13:21
17./32.	2014	Kazan	Vladimir Ivanov	14:21, 22:24
33./64.	2004	Geneva	Eric Pang	12:15, 3:15
German Championships ( DBV )
gold	2005	Bielefeld	Bjorn Joppien	15: 6, 10:15, 15:13
gold	2008	Bielefeld	Bjorn Joppien	21:19, 21:14
gold	2009	Bielefeld	Bjorn Joppien	22:20, 22:20
gold	2010	Bielefeld	Dieter Domke	21:11, 21:13
gold	2011	Bielefeld	Lukas Schmidt	21:18, 21:12
gold	2012	Bielefeld	Dieter Domke	21:12, 21:23, 21:15
gold	2013	Bielefeld	Lukas Schmidt	21:14, 21:10
gold	2015	Bielefeld	Fabian Roth	21:13, 23:21
gold	2016	Bielefeld	Dieter Domke	21:18, 21:16
bronze	2003	Bielefeld
International tournaments
1.	2003	French Open	Joachim Fischer Nielsen	15: 3, 8:15, 15:12
3rd / 4th	2004	Dutch Open	Kenneth Jonassen	9:15, 7:15
2.	2004	Norwegian International	Bjorn Joppien	4:15, 5:15
3rd / 4th	2004	Iceland International	Bobby Milroy	13:15, 15: 2, 11:15
3rd / 4th	2004	Le Volant d'Or de Toulouse	Kasper Ødum	15:11, 2:15, 13:15
2.	2004	Scottish International	Arvind Bhat	8:15, 7:15
3rd / 4th	2005	Portuguese International	Arif Rasidi	12:15, 0:15
3rd / 4th	2005	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Kasper Ødum	15:13, 3:15, 4:15
1.	2007	Belgian International	Wu Yunyong	21:16, 14:21, 21:19
3rd / 4th	2007	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Tsuen Seng Lee	10:21, 23:21, 15:21
1.	2007	Norwegian International	Kasper Ødum	21:15, 11:21, 23:21
1.	2007	Welsh International	Irwansyah	21:16, 21:13
2.	2007	Irish International	Peter Mikkelsen	19:21, 18:21
1.	2007	Hellas International	Raju Rai	21:14, 21:16
1.	2008	Swedish International Stockholm	Jan Ø. Jørgensen	21:13, 23:21
1.	2008	Polish International	Ville Lång	21:15, 21:13
1.	2008	Badminton Europe Circuit Finals	Ville Lång	21:14, 19:21, 21:19
2.	2009	Finnish International	Peter Mikkelsen	14:21, 21:16, 20:22
1.	2009	Belgian International	Christian Lind Thomsen	21:13, 16:21, 21:15
2.	2009	Denmark Open	Simon Santoso	14:21, 6:21
2.	2009	Norwegian International	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	21:15, 18:21, 19:21
1.	2009	Scottish International	Peter Mikkelsen	21:15, 15:21, 21:16
1.	2010	Belgian International	Eric Pang	21:15, 21:17
3rd / 4th	2011	All of England	Lin Dan	9:21, 21:16, 11:21
3rd / 4th	2011	Morocco International	Joachim Persson	12:21, 15:21
3rd / 4th	2011	US Open	Tiến Minh Nguyễn	22:20, 13:21, 18:21
1.	2011	Canada Open	Taufik Hidayat	21:13, 25:23
3rd / 4th	2011	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	21:17, 17:21, 16:21
2.	2012	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Chou Tien-Chen	19:21, 12:21
2.	2013	Indonesia Open	Lee Chong Wei	15:21, 14:21
2.	2013	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Chou Tien-Chen	21:13, 18:21, 15:21
3rd / 4th	2014	German Open	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	16:21, 13:21
2.	2014	Belgian International	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	8:11, 11:10, 9:11, 9:11
1.	2014	Czech International	Joachim Persson	21:13, 21:18
1.	2014	Bulgarian International	Scott Evans	21:15, 21: 8
3rd / 4th	2014	China Open	K. Srikanth	11:21, 7:13 task
3rd / 4th	[13]2015	Indonesia Open	Jan Ø. Jørgensen	17:21, 5:11 task
3rd / 4th	[14]2015	Canada Open	Ng Ka Long Angus	17:21, 15:21
1.	[15]2015	Prague Open	Zvonimir Đurkinjak	26:24, 21:11
3rd / 4th	[16]2015	Badminton Open Saarbrücken	Wong Wing Ki Vincent	21:18, 12:21, 11:21
2.	[17]2015	Italian International	Brice Leverdez	17:21, 21:14, 24:26
1.	[18]2015	Turkey International	Harsheel Dani	21: 8, 15:21, 21: 7
2.	2016	Swiss Open	HS Prannoy	18:21, 15:21

Legend BWF World Superseries Finals BWF World Superseries Premier BWF World Superseries BWF Grand Prix Gold BWF Grand Prix (until 2006 IBF World Grand Prix ) Badminton Europe Circuit Finals Badminton Europe Circuit / International Challenge

BWF World Superseries (Premier)

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	SSF	position
2007														83.
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-
2008														44.
	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	1R	1R	1R	AF	-
2009														30th
	-	-	AF	1R	1R	1R	-	-	F.	1R	-	-	-
2010														13.
	AF	1R	1R	1R	1R	AF	-	-	VF	VF	1R	1R	-
2011														13.
	AF	AF	HF	-	AF	1R	1R	1R	AF	1R	AF	1R	-
2012														25th
	VF	1R	AF	-	-	-	-	-	AF	1R	1R	VF	-
2013														14th
	AF	1R	1R	-	F.	VF	-	AF	1R	1R	1R	AF	-
2014														19th
	AF	1R	1R	-	-	AF	1R	AF	1R	AF	HF	1R	-
2015														23.
	AF	1R	1R	1R	1R	HF	1R	1R	-	-	1R	AF	-
2016														9.
	VF	VF	1R	AF

Legend: S = tournament victory; F = losing finalist; HF, VF, AF = eliminated in the semifinals, quarterfinals and last sixteen; 1R = eliminated in the 1st round; Q = eliminated in qualification

National team

result	year	place	opponent	Result
Thomas Cup
5th / 8th	2010	Kuala Lumpur	Japan ( Ken'ichi Tago )	1: 3 (21:15, 18:21, 18:21)
5th / 8th	2012	Wuhan	South Korea ( Lee Hyun-il )	0: 3 (16:21, 21:18, 14:21)
9/12	2008	Jakarta	Japan ( Shōji Satō )	2: 3 (21:19, 17:21, 5:21)
13./16.	2014	New Delhi	India ( K. Srikanth )	2: 3 (18:21, 21:18, 18:21)
Sudirman Cup
5th / 8th	2015	Dongguan	People's Republic of China ( Lin Dan )	0: 3 (12:21, 15:21)
9/12	2011	Qingdao	Japan (Ken'ichi Tago)	1: 4 (11:21, 18:21)
13.	2007	Glasgow	Netherlands ( Eric Pang )	3: 0 (21:18, 19:21, 21:17)
13.	2009	Guangzhou	Netherlands (Eric Pang)	3: 0 (21:19, 19:21, 21:14)
European Mixed Teams Championship ( BE )
gold	2013	Ramenskoye	Denmark ( Hans-Kristian Vittinghus )	3: 0 (21:17, 7:21, 21: 8)
silver	2011	Amsterdam	Denmark ( Jan Ø. Jørgensen )	1: 3 (18:21, 15:21)
5.	2008	Herning	Russia (no mission)	3: 2
5th / 8th	2009	Liverpool	Russia ( Vladimir Malkow )	2: 3 (21: 9, 21:13)
European Championship of Men's Teams ( BE )
silver	2012	Amsterdam	Denmark (Jan Ø. Jørgensen)	0: 3 (11:21, 14:21)
bronze	2008	Almere	Poland ( Łukasz Moreń )	3: 1 (21:12, 21:18)
bronze	2010	Warsaw	Ukraine ( Dmytro Zavadsky )	3: 1 (21:16, 27:25)
bronze	2014	Basel	England ( Rajiv Ouseph )	1: 3 (13:21, 21:17, 16:21)
bronze	2016	Kazan	Denmark (Jan Ø. Jørgensen)	0: 3 (17:21, 19:21)

Career after sport

During his sporting career, he completed his business administration degree at the International University of Bad Honnef (IUBH). After his sporting career, Marc moved to Berlin, where he first worked for an innovation and technology consultancy before working as a business strategy manager for Europe's largest sports e-commerce retailer. He is still closely connected to national and international sport and sits on the supervisory board of the German Sports Aid, on the Presidium of Athletes Germany, the Athletes Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and on the Council and Executive Board of the Badminton World Federation (BWF).

Since May 2020 he has been managing director of the startup "Kurabu". The Berlin company, together with TSG Bergedorf from Hamburg, has set itself the task of digitizing sports clubs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Competitive Sports Unit ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , badminton.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015. 
2. ^ "The late luck of Marc Zwiebler" , Saarbrücker Zeitung on May 18, 2012. Accessed on August 8, 2012.
3. ↑ Press service "Modern learning at university level" , iubh-fernstudium.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
4. ↑ https://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/sport/regional/marc-zwiebler-singapur-kenne-ich-besser-als-bonn_aid-43665331
5. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/article165400816/Praezisionsarbeit.html
6. ↑ Zwiebler European badminton champion for the first time focus.de
7. ↑ Marc Zwiebler indicates farewell to 1. BC Beuel , general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
8. ↑ Profile of Marc Zwiebler ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marc-zwiebler.de. 
9. ↑ Marc Zwiebler travels to the Badminton European Championship as a German hope ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sporthilfe.de. 
10. ↑ Marc Zwiebler writes badminton history ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marc-zwiebler.de. 
11. ↑ Mixed EM: Historic triumph for German badminton team , spiegel.de.
12. ↑ Birgit and Marc Player of the Year 2011 , badzine.de.
13. ^ Title to Marc Zwiebler and Juliane Schenk , badzine.de.
14. ↑ Marc Zwiebler and Birgit Michels victorious ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , badminton.de. 
15. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior dated November 3, 2017
16. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=76625781-4100-42A2-AEB9-212D44C17A08&draw=10
17. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D44D9F8D-9646-49A5-BF0E-C98068AF6E65&draw=4
18. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=4E2EB606-95C8-4086-8091-17ED6D5225A4&draw=2
19. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=7424B11B-7C9E-450D-84D5-48D8A5105EF5&draw=2
20. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=705DF65F-FCA1-4EC7-ACEE-12892B77B4EB&draw=2
21. ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=76A31CD2-FE09-4E4C-BC34-50BE766CD16A&draw=2
22. ↑ WORLD SUPERSERIES DUBAI RANKINGS . Retrieved February 7, 2016.

Web links

• Homepage of Marc Zwiebler
• Marc Zwiebler at the World Badminton Federation
• Marc Zwiebler's DBV profile
• Results of Marc Zwiebler for the 1st BC Bischmisheim in the 1st Badminton Bundesliga, season 2015/16
• Badminton professional Zwiebler , Spiegel Online, August 11, 2009
• Kurabu , membership management and club management online