Marcus Becker

This article deals with the canoeist Marcus Becker. For other people see Markus Becker .

Marcus Becker
nation	Germany
birthday	September 11, 1981
place of birth	Merseburg,  German Democratic Republic
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Canadians
society	Boellberger SV Halle
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2004 Athens C2 Canoe World Championships gold 2003 C2 gold 2005 C2 silver 2003 C2 team silver 2006 C2 silver 2006 C2 team silver 2009 C2 team bronze 2005 C2

Marcus Becker (born September 11, 1981 in Merseburg , GDR ) is a former German canoeist .

Becker won the title at the 2003 Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg . The athlete from Böllberger SV Halle was silver medalist in the two-man canoe (C2) at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . At the Canoe Slalom World Championships 2007 in Foz do Iguaçu , he and Stefan Henze finished fourth in C2. Becker had to undergo surgery in November 2009 because of a herniated disc . He had to cancel the Canoe Slalom World Championships in 2011 due to another herniated disc. In 2012, Becker and Henze announced their withdrawal from competitive sports.

Web links

• Marcus Becker in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• DKV page
• Website of Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze ( Memento from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell to Becker / Henze . BSV Halle, December 4, 2012, accessed on August 13, 2016.