Marcel Hug

Marcel Hug
Marcel Hug at the 2014 Paris Marathon
Full name	Marcel Eric Hug
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 16, 1986
Career
discipline	Medium and long haul
Trainer	Paul Odermatt
Medal table
Summer Paralympics bronze 2004 Athens 800 meters bronze 2004 Athens 1500 meters silver 2012 London 800 meters silver 2012 London marathon gold 2016 Rio 800 meters silver 2016 Rio 1500 meters silver 2016 Rio 5000 meters gold 2016 Rio marathon  IPC world championships silver 2006 Assen 400 meters silver 2006 Assen 800 meters silver 2006 Assen 5000 meters gold 2006 Assen 10,000 meters silver 2011 Christchurch 400 meters silver 2011 Christchurch 800 meters silver 2011 Christchurch 1500 meters silver 2011 Christchurch 5000 meters gold 2011 Christchurch 10,000 meters gold 2013 Lyon 400 meters silver 2013 Lyon 800 meters gold 2013 Lyon 1500 meters gold 2013 Lyon 5000 meters gold 2013 Lyon 10,000 meters gold 2013 Lyon marathon silver 2015 Doha 5000 meters bronze 2015 Doha 800 meters gold 2017 London 800 meters gold 2017 London 1500 meters silver 2019 Dubai 800 meters bronze 2019 Dubai 1500 meters silver 2019 Dubai 5000 meters gold 2019 London marathon  IPC European Championships gold 2005 Espoo 4x400 meter relay gold 2005 Espoo 800 meters gold 2005 Espoo 1500 meters gold 2005 Espoo 5000 meters gold 2005 Espoo 10,000 meters silver 2014 Swansea 400 meters gold 2014 Swansea 800 meters gold 2014 Swansea 1500 meters gold 2014 Swansea 5000 meters gold 2018 Berlin 800 meters gold 2018 Berlin 1500 meters gold 2018 Berlin 5000 meters  World Marathon Majors silver 2010 London marathon bronze 2010 Berlin marathon gold 2011 Berlin marathon silver 2012 London marathon gold 2012 Berlin marathon silver 2013 London marathon silver 2013 Berlin marathon gold 2013 New York marathon gold 2014 London marathon gold 2015 Boston marathon silver 2015 Chicago marathon bronze 2015 New York marathon gold 2016 Boston marathon gold 2016 London marathon gold 2016 Berlin marathon gold 2016 Chicago marathon gold 2016 New York marathon silver 2017 Tokyo marathon gold 2017 Boston marathon silver 2017 London marathon gold 2017 Berlin marathon gold 2017 Chicago marathon gold 2017 New York marathon gold 2018 Boston marathon silver 2018 London marathon silver 2018 Berlin marathon silver 2018 Chicago marathon silver 2018 New York marathon gold 2019 Tokyo marathon bronze 2019 Boston marathon silver 2019 London marathon gold 2019 Berlin marathon silver 2019 New York marathon

Marcel Hug at the London Marathon 2010

Marcel Eric Hug (born January 16, 1986 ) is a Swiss wheelchair athlete . He is active in the starting class T54 over the medium and long distance .

Career

Hug was born in 1986 in Pfyn with spina bifida . At the age of ten, he first started a racing wheelchair in a junior race, the Schenkon Marathon school race, and in 1998 he won the same race in his age group. In the following years he was also able to record numerous successes. From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of the athletics squad of the RSS, since 2005 of the Swiss national squad.

Hug, who attended the Thurgau sports school (now: the Thurgau National Elite Sports School), then completed his commercial training at Frei's schools in Lucerne.

2004 Summer Paralympics

At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens he won bronze medals in the 800 and 1500 meters.

2008 Summer Paralympics

In 2008 he took part in the Summer Paralympics in Beijing in part.
Hug started his professional career in January 2010. At the end of June 2010 he set four new world records over 800, 1500, 5000 and 10,000 meters at the Swiss Championships in Arbon. Since the beginning of his career, Hug has been training with Paul Odermatt (certified trainer for top sport Swiss Olympic). His nickname is "Silver Bullet".

2012 Summer Paralympics

At the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London , he won silver medals in the 800 meters and in the marathon. His principle is:

"I want to be respected as an athlete and as a person and not admired as a disabled person ... I do not see myself as an ambassador for disabled people."

- Marcel Hug, 2013

Summer Paralympics 2016

At the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , he won over 800 meters and gold in the marathon. He also won silver over 1500 and 5000 meters in Rio.
In 2016 Hug won the city marathons in Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York (for the second time after 2013), thus winning the Marathon Major Series.

Marcel Hug was nominated by the Laureus Foundation in 2017 for the Disabled Sportsman of the Year (World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability) and on February 27, 2018 he was awarded this award in Monte Carlo .

Honors

• 2004: Swiss Sportsman of the Year , Newcomer of the Year
• 2011, 2013–2017: Swiss Sportsman of the Year six times, Disabled Sportsman of the Year
• 2018: Laureus Foundation , Disabled Athlete of the Year

Sporting successes

Summer Paralympics

date	place	discipline	space
Sep 18 2016	Rio de Janeiro	marathon	1.
Sep 15 2016	Rio de Janeiro	800 m	1.
13 Sep 2016	Rio de Janeiro	1500 m	2.
Sep 11 2016	Rio de Janeiro	5000 m	2.
06 Sep 2012	London	marathon	2.
06 Sep 2012	London	800 m	2.
2004	Athens	800 m	3.
2004	Athens	1500 m	3.

Web links

Commons : Marcel Hug  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marcel Hug's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SWISS PARALYMPIC portrait - Marcel Hug, athletics
2. ↑ «I don't see myself as an ambassador for the disabled» ( Memento from February 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (April 28, 2013)
3. ↑ "Oscar of the sports world" for Marcel Hug? (January 12, 2017)