Michael Franz (badminton)

Michael Franz (* around 1957 ) is a German badminton player .

Career

Michael Franz won his first national team title in the GDR as a junior in 1973 with the team from Einheit Greifswald. Another five team titles followed by 1981. At the individual championships, he won four silver and five bronze medals.

Sporting successes

season	event	discipline	space	Surname
1970/1971	GDR individual championship age group 12/13	Mixed	2	Michael Franz / Renate Thurow (Greifswald Unit)
1972/1973	GDR individual championship age group 16/17	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Jürgen Müller (Greifswald Unit / HSG DHfK Leipzig)
1972/1973	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Erfried Michalowsky, Edgar Michalowski, Klaus Müller, Ralf Peters, Michael Franz, Hubert Wagner, Christine Zierath, Renate Thurow, Angela Michalowski)
1973/1974	GDR individual championship age group 16/17	Mixed	2	Michael Franz / Renate Thurow (Greifswald Unit)
1974/1975	Silver shuttlecock	Men's doubles	2	Erfried Michalowsky / Michael Franz (Greifswald Unit)
1974/1975	GDR individual championship age group 16/17	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Norbert Michalowsky (Greifswald unit)
1974/1975	GDR individual championship age group 16/17	Men's singles	1	Michael Franz (Greifswald Unit)
1974/1975	GDR individual championship age group 16/17	Mixed	1	Michael Franz / Renate Thurow (Greifswald Unit)
1974/1975	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Edgar Michalowski, Erfried Michalowsky, Norbert Michalowsky, Hubert Wagner, Klaus Müller, Michael Franz, Christine Zierath, Renate Thurow, Ilona Michalowsky)
1976/1977	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Edgar Michalowski, Erfried Michalowsky, Michael Franz, Norbert Michalowsky, Klaus Müller, Renate Thurow, Angela Michalowski, Christine Zierath)
1976/1977	GDR individual championship	Men's doubles	3	Jürgen Brösel / Michael Franz (Greifswald Unit)
1977/1978	GDR individual championship	Mixed	3	Michael Franz / Ilona Michalowsky (Greifswald Unit)
1977/1978	GDR individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Uwe Kämmer (Greifswald Unit)
1977/1978	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Edgar Michalowski, Erfried Michalowsky, Michael Franz, Uwe Kämmer, Angela Michalowski, Ilona Michalowsky, Birgit Kämmer, Christine Zierath)
1978/1979	GDR individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Joachim Schimpke (Greifswald Unit / Tröbitz Progress)
1978/1979	GDR individual championship	Mixed	3	Michael Franz / Ilona Michalowsky (Greifswald Unit)
1978/1979	GDR student championship	Mixed	1	Michael Franz / Birgit Harder (Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald - Greifswald Unit / DHfK Leipzig)
1979/1980	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Edgar Michalowski, Erfried Michalowsky, Michael Franz, Thomas Mundt, Klaus Müller, Norbert Michalowsky, Petra Michalowsky, Christine Zierath, Ilona Michalowsky, Angela Michalowski)
1979/1980	GDR individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Thomas Mundt (Greifswald Unit)
1979/1980	GDR individual championship	Men's singles	3	Michael Franz (Greifswald Unit)
1980/1981	GDR student championship	Men's doubles	3	Michael Franz / Uwe Kämmer (Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald - Greifswald Unit)
1980/1981	GDR individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Michael Franz / Thomas Mundt (Greifswald Unit)
1980/1981	GDR team championship	team	1	Greifswald unit (Erfried Michalowsky, Edgar Michalowski, Thomas Mundt, Michael Franz, Thomas Greeck, Angela Michalowski, Petra Michalowsky, Birgit Kämmer, Ilona Michalowsky, Christine Zierath)
1980/1981	GDR student championship	Mixed	1	Michael Franz / Ilona Michalowsky (Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald - Greifswald Unit)
1980/1981	GDR individual championship	Mixed	3	Michael Franz / Petra Michalowsky (Greifswald Unit)

credentials

• René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )