Martin Rooke

Martin Rooke Parabadminton
Personal information
Type of disability (class):	WH2
Nationality:	England
Birthday:	November 21, 1972
Place of birth:	Hertfordshire
last change: 2020-02-20

Martin Rooke (born November 21, 1972 in Hertfordshire ) is an English badminton player . As a result of an accident, he is incompletely paraplegic and starts in Parabadminton in the starting class WH2 in singles, doubles and mixed. He aims to participate in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo .

Athletic career

Before his accident, Martin Rooke played as a semi-professional at Tring Athletic Football Club in Hertfordshire and competed for England as a gymnast . In a house collapse in May 2006, he suffered incomplete paraplegia and has been dependent on a wheelchair ever since .

Rooke started parabadminton in 2010. The following year he won gold in singles at the European Badminton Championships for disabled people in Dortmund and the doubles title with his teammate Gobi Ranganathan . In 2013 he won silver in doubles with Ranganathan at the Badminton World Championship for the disabled at the same location . In 2014 at the Parabadminton EM in Murcia , Rooke won gold medals in singles and in mixed with Karin Suter-Erath by beating the French-Swiss couple David Toupé and Sonja Häsler in the final . In doubles he won silver with Avni Kertmen, who started for Turkey, against the French-German duo David Toupé and Thomas Wandschneider . The 2016 European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Beek brought Rooke the individual title by beating the Dutchman Jordy Brouwer von Gonzenbach . With David Toupé he lost to the Englishman Connor Dua-Harper and Thomas Wandschneider in doubles and took silver. In mixed he won gold with Karin Suter-Erath against Toupé and the Turkish Narin Uluc . At the European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Rodez in 2018 , Rooke won gold in singles and doubles with his new partner Thomas Wandschneider.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Britain's best to break new ground at Badminton World Championships. In: paralympics.org.uk. August 19, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Double gold as Rooke gets feathers flying. In: berkhamstedtoday.co.uk. June 19, 2012, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ 6 Gold medals for England's Para-Badminton team. In: badmintonengland.co.uk. June 12, 2012, accessed February 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .