Marco Baldauf (gymnast)
Marco Baldauf 
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Marco Baldauf doing gymnastics on the pommel horse. The picture comes from the Landesjugendturnfest 2003 in Bludenz. |
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| Personal information | |
| Nationality: |
 Austria
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| discipline | Apparatus gymnastics |
| Special device / s: | Horizontal bar |
| Society: | TS Dornbirn |
| Trainer: | Petr Koudela |
| Birthday: | November 12, 1979 |
| Place of birth: | Hohenems |
| Size: | 175 cm |
| Weight: | 70 kg |
Marco Baldauf (born November 12, 1979 in Hohenems ) is a former Austrian gymnast. He is 33-time national champion, five-time World Cup medalist, sixth in the European Championship on the horizontal bar and inventor of the Baldauf element named after him.
Career
Marco Baldauf began gymnastics in 1987 in his parent club, TS Dornbirn. In 1990 he made the leap into the Vorarlberg state squad. Among other things, he learned from the Hungarian trainer Dezsö Bordan, who was employed in Vorarlberg until 1998. Under Bordan, the Vorarlberg gymnastics club made up three quarters of the national team.
Marco Baldauf graduated from the sports high school in Dornbirn and then signed up as a sports soldier in the Army Sports Center of the Austrian Armed Forces (HSLZ), thus creating the conditions for a professional career. In parallel to competitive sports , he obtained a bachelor's degree in “health and competitive sports” as well as teaching degrees in Spanish and sports. During his studies in Innsbruck he moved his training from the state sports center in Dornbirn to the performance center in Innsbruck , where most of the national gymnastics team trained. From 2005 to 2012 he trained under national coach Petr Koudela; During this time, Marco Baldauf achieved his best international placements. Marco Baldauf was in the Austrian national team for 18 years, and in March 2015 he stepped down from competitive sports.
successes
By the end of his career in 2015, Marco Baldauf had participated in eleven world and 14 European championships, he is 33 times Austrian national champion. He achieved world-class level on his special device, the horizontal bar . At the European Gymnastics Championships in Lausanne in 2008 , Marco Baldauf was ninth on the horizontal bar. He missed the final of the best eight by 25 thousandths of a point; that was the best European Championship result for an Austrian in 43 years. In 2003 he was third in the high-bar final of the championship tournament in Cottbus and thus won the first medal of an Austrian artistic gymnast in the World Cup. At the 2010 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships , he was tenth on the horizontal bar. At the World Championships in Rotterdam 2010, Marco Baldauf landed with the 14th best grade, 19th place and was the sixth best European. He achieved Austria's best World Cup result since 1996 (Catalin Mircan was 10th on the pommel horse in 1996). At the 2011 European Championships in Berlin, he was 13th on the horizontal bar and missed the final of the eight best gymnasts on this device by only three tenths of a point. On the occasion of the 2011 World Cup in Tokyo , after having been restricted to the horizontal bar for years, he played again in the six-way fight to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in the all- around world championship. Baldauf showed a strong performance, but stayed just behind his teammate Fabian Leimlehner , who secured the quota for the 2012 Olympics.
At the 2012 European Gymnastics Championships in Montpellier, Marco Baldauf became the first gymnast in the history of the ÖFT to qualify for an apparatus final of the best eight. In the final competition on the horizontal bar, a not perfectly trained advance element made it difficult for the Katschow to turn halfway. Baldauf fell off the device on this part of the flight and finally came in 6th.
Baldauf element in the Code de Pointage
Marco Baldauf created a new element on the horizontal bar, which was noted in 2015 in the official valuation regulations of the FIG, the Code de Pointage as "Baldauf". It is a “jumped complete turn from the eagle swing into the twist” on the horizontal bar. In addition to Marco Baldauf, three other Austrians have so far invented gymnastics elements named after them: Birgit Schier in 1990 with her “Schier-Stemme” on the uneven bars, Thomas Zimmermann with the “Zimmermann” jump and in 2003 Tanja Gratt with her “stoop and somersault backwards the upper stile on the uneven bars ".
International placements
Horizontal bar EM places 6 (2012), 9 (2008), 10 (2010), 13 (2011). Horizontal bar overall World Cup places: 6 (2011), 8 (2009), 9 (2010). Marco Baldauf achieved numerous top 10 placements in the World Cup. The table shows placements from rank 6 upwards.
| Year, venue | World Cup placement | device |
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| 2003 Cottbus | Rank 3 | Horizontal bar |
| 2004 La Serena | Rank 6 | Horizontal bar |
| 2006 Tehran | Rank 3 | Horizontal bar |
| 2006 Tehran | Rank 6 | ground |
| 2006 Ghent | Rank 5 | Horizontal bar |
| 2007 Ostrava | Rank 6 | Horizontal bar |
| 2009 Cottbus | Rank 3 | Horizontal bar |
| 2009 Maribor | Rank 3 | Horizontal bar |
| 2009 Osijek | Rank 4 | Horizontal bar |
| 2009 Overall World Cup 2009 | Rank 8 | Horizontal bar |
| 2010 Ghent | Rank 6 | Horizontal bar |
| 2010 Ostrava | Rank 2 | Horizontal bar |
| 2010 Overall World Cup 2010 | Rank 9 | Horizontal bar |
| 2011 FIG -Challenger Gent | Rank 4 | Horizontal bar |
| 2011 Overall World Cup 2011 | Rank 6 | Horizontal bar |
Marco Baldauf was voted ÖFT Sportsman of the Year in 2004 and 2005 by the Austrian Gymnastics Association.
Web links
- Marco Baldauf on the website of the Austrian Gymnastics Association ( Memento from November 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Soon, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenems |