Marcel Hess

Marcel Hess (born November 16, 1982 in Aarau ) is a former Swiss handball player .

The 1.90 m tall and 94 kg heavy right-handed man was mostly used on the left wing . Marcel Hess started playing handball at the Swiss club HR Hochdorf.

From 1999 he played for the TV Suhr in the NLA , with which he became champion in 2001. Internationally, he reached the quarter-finals of the 2001/02 EHF Challenge Cup with Suhr . In 2006 he moved to GC Amicitia Zurich , with whom he became champions in 2008 and 2009 and cup winner in 2009. In the 2008/09 European Cup Winners' Cup , he reached the semi-finals. From 2010 he ran for Pfadi Winterthur . In 2014/15 he was Most Valuable Player and was then one of three nominated athletes for the Winterthur Athlete of the Year award, but the award went to BMX rider David Graf . He ended his career after the 2017/18 season.

With 1777 goals in 536 games, Marcel Hess is ranked 9th in the NLA's all-time goalscorer list. (As of July 2018)

In the Swiss national team , he made his debut on December 19, 2003 against Luxembourg and played 112 international matches in which he scored 155 goals.

Web links

• Marcel Hess on the website of Pfadi Winterthur
• Marcel Hess in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Marcel Hess in handball-hall-of-fame.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.news.ch Hess von Suhr zu GC of December 27, 2005
2. ↑ Successful Winterthur athletes receive awards. City of Winterthur, March 3, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2018 .  
3. ↑ www.handball-world.news Pfadi Winterthur's captain retires, accessed on 29 August 2017
4. ↑ www.handball.ch Eternal goalscorer list ( memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 29, 2017
5. ↑ www.handball.ch player profile Marcel Hess ( memento from 7 July 2018 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on 29 August 2017