Marcel Hacker

Marcel Hacker
nation	Germany
birthday	April 29, 1977
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  GDR
size	196 cm
Weight	102 kg
job	Industrial mechanic , DB AG
Career
discipline	Rowing / Skull
society	SC Magdeburg Casseler FRV Frankfurter RG Germania
Trainer	Andreas Maul Ralf Hollmann Roland Oesemann
National squad	since 1994
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
total 5 × 7 × 3 × Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 4 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 0 × U23 World Championship medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2000 Sydney One  World championships silver 1997 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Double fours silver 1998 Cologne Double fours gold 2002 Seville One silver 2003 Milan One silver 2006 Eton One bronze 2009 Poznan Double fours bronze 2013 Chungju One  European championships silver 2013 Seville One silver 2014 Belgrade One gold 2015 Poznan Double scull silver 2016 Brandenburg Double scull  U23 world championships gold 1996 Hazewinkel One  Junior World Championships gold 1994 Munich Double fours gold 1995 Poznan One
Last change: July 11, 2017

Marcel Hacker (born April 29, 1977 in Magdeburg ) is a former German rower . In 2002 he became world champion in single .

Career

Marcel Hacker is 1.96 m tall and weighs 102 kg. The industrial mechanic at Deutsche Bahn rowed for the Frankfurt rowing company Germania 1869 from 2005 to 2012 . Hacker starts working for SC Magdeburg from 2013 . Hacker has been training with Andreas Maul since 1998. In December 2008 Hartmut Buschbacher , who is also the head coach of the German Rowing Association , took over this function.

Marcel Hacker won the 1995 World Junior Championships in singles. After that, he won several medals at the World Championships for under 23-year-olds . In 1997 and 1998 he won a silver medal at the open world championship in the double fours of the German Rowing Association .

Marcel Hacker has been rowing the one for Germany since 1999, at the 1999 World Championships in St. Catherines he qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . There he won the bronze medal. In 2001 Hacker had another strong season, but retired after a World Cup semi-final on the Rotsee, which was well below the world's fastest time .

In 2002 Marcel Hacker became world champion in the world best time of 6: 36.33 minutes, which lasted until August 26, 2006. After winning more than 40 races in a row, he had to admit defeat to Olaf Tufte from Norway at the 2003 World Championships in Milan . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Hacker suffered setbacks in health and was unhappy in the semi-finals. In the B final, however, he again took first place.

At the 2006 World Championships in Eton / GB, he won the silver medal in a thrilling final in 6: 35.49 minutes behind the defending champion Mahé Drysdale from New Zealand (6: 35.40 minutes), who beat Hacker's old world record.

In 2007, at the World Championships on his home track in Munich, Hacker showed very strong performances in the preliminary and semi-finals, but was unable to follow up on them in the final and thus finished fifth.

Marcel Hacker was considered one of the best athletes of the German Rowing Association in his time and showed consistent performance over a long period of time. His long-term goal was to win the previously lost gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . He could not achieve this goal in Beijing. With fourth place in the semifinals, he only reached Final B. There he won and thus achieved seventh place overall in the men's singles.

In 2009 he did not compete in international competitions as in previous years, but rowed in the German Rowing Association's double quad. This reached third place at the 2009 World Championships in Poland.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he finished sixth. A year later he reached third place at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju . In 2015 and 2016 Marcel Hacker started together with Stephan Krüger in double sculls and won the 2015 European Championship in this boat class . Hacker and Krüger achieved eighth place at the 2016 Olympic Games .

Marcel Hacker ended his active career after the 2016 Olympic Games.

In addition, Marcel Hacker often organizes training camps for young people. Marcel Hacker also trained with André Vonarburg for a few years .

Web links

• Marcel Hacker at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Marcel Hacker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German champions in one

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcel Hacker starts in 2013 for Magdeburg on rudern.de. Retrieved December 7, 2012 .