Markus Bröll

Markus Bröll

Markus Bröll at the 2012 World Cup in Oftringen
To person
Date of birth	15th May 1987 (age 33)
nation	Austria
discipline	Bike ball
To the team
Current team	RC Höchst
function	Outfield player
Most important successes
World Champion 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019 Austrian Champion 2007, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
Last updated: December 11, 2019

Markus Bröll (born May 15, 1987 ) is an Austrian cyclist from RC Höchst and six-time cyclist world champion (2013-2019).

Career

Markus Bröll started his career at RV Dornbirn . In 1999 he won the Austrian school championship for the first time together with Mathias Burtscher. They defended their title for the next two years. Then they switched to the juniors and won one silver and two gold medals. They also won the 2004 European Junior Championship.

From 2005 he played in the first division together with Martin Lingg . In 2007 he even achieved the championship title in the elite and the silver medal at the world championships . Since the 2009 season he has been playing with his brother Thommy , with whom he won the U23 European Cup twice. In 2010 the two moved together to RC Höchst .

At the beginning of 2013 he changed his partner again and has since played with the young world champion Patrick Schnetzer . In November 2017 he started with Patrick Schnetzer at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2017 in Dornbirn and the two became vice world champions after a 3: 4 in the final against Germany.

In November 2018 he and Patrick Schnetzer won the title of world champion for the fifth time in Liège and in December 2019 the two won the title of world champion for the sixth time in Basel .

In August 2019, the 32-year-old announced that he wanted to end his active career at the end of the 2019 season.

Sporting successes

• World Championship
  • World champions 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019
  • Silver medal 2007 , 2017
• Overall World Cup
  • 1st place in 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018
  • 2nd place 2015
  • 3rd place 2012 , 2013
• European Cup / European Championship
  • 1st place in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019
  • 2nd place 2008
  • 3rd place 2007 , 2013
• Austrian championship
  • 1st place in 2007, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • 2nd place 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015
  • 3rd place 2011, 2013
• Austrian Cup
  • 1st place 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • 2nd place in 2006, 2013, 2016
  • 3rd place 2010, 2012
• European Cup U23
  • 1st place in 2008, 2009
  • 2nd place 2006
• Junior European Championship
  • 1st place 2004
  • 3rd place 2003

World Cup Statistics

year	partner	1. T.	2. T.	3rd T.	4. T.	Points	Qual	final
2005	Martin Lingg	8th	-	-	-	18th	29	-
2006	Martin Lingg				4th	175	3	6th
2007	Martin Lingg	6th	4th			150	4th	6th
2008	Martin Lingg	5	4th	4th	5	130	9	-
2009	Martin Lingg	- (a)	- (a)		- (a) (b)	126	8th	- (a)
2010	Thommy Bröll	9		7th	6th	111	10	-
2012	Thommy Bröll		5	4th	5	140	7th
2013	Patrick Schnetzer				4th	180	3
2014	Patrick Schnetzer		4th			175	3
2015	Patrick Schnetzer			5		180	1
2016	Patrick Schnetzer			5		175	2
2017	Patrick Schnetzer	4th			- (d)	135	2
2018	Patrick Schnetzer (s)					195	1
2019	Patrick Schnetzer (s)					100	2
As of September 02, 2019

Participations: 56
gold medals: 22
silver medals: 10
bronze medals: 3

Legend
Year: Calls the year of the World Cup. Partner: Playing partner in this World Cup year. 1st day: (1st tournament, out of 4) the athlete's rank in this tournament. Points: World Cup points that the player had at the end of qualification. Quali: Rank at the end of the qualification. Final: Rank in the final, if this was achieved.

^(a) In 2009 Patrick Köck replaced Markus Bröll at the tournaments in Baesweiler, Oita, Ginsheim and in the final in Chemnitz.

^(b) Thommy Bröll replaced Martin Lingg at the 2009 tournament in Ginsheim.

^(c) Not qualified.

^(d) In the 2017 season, each team only played three tournaments.

^(e) Ongoing competition.

Web links

• Results on www.radball.at
• Austrian Cycling Association
• Official homepage of the RC Höchst ( Memento from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling world champions Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (November 15, 2017)
2. ↑ UCI - Schedule of Indoor Cycling World Championships 2017 ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Uri cycling duo takes bronze at the World Cup (November 25, 2018)
4. ↑ Sixth World Championship title for Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (December 8, 2019)
5. ↑ Four-time world champion Markus Bröll ends his career (August 8, 2019)