Marcel Nguyen

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Marcel Nguyen
— Gymnast —
Personal information
Full name Marcel Nguyen
Country represented  Germany
Born (1987-09-08) September 8, 1987
Munich, Germany
Hometown Munich
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
Club TSV Unterhaching
Medal record
Competitor for  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver 2012 London All-Around
Silver 2012 London Parallel bars
World Championships
Bronze 2007 Stuttgart Team
European Championships
Gold 2010 Birmingham Team
Gold 2011 Berlin Parallel bars
Gold 2012 Montpellier Parallel bars
Silver 2008 Lausanne Team
Bronze 2010 Birmingham Floor
Bronze 2011 Berlin Horizontal bar
American Cup
Bronze 2012 New York City All-Around
Bronze 2013 Worcester All-Around

Marcel Nguyen (born 8 September 1987 in Munich) is a German gymnast. In 2012, he became an Olympic silver medalist after competing at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Sporting career

Born to a German mother and a Vietnamese father, Nguyen began gymnastics at the age of four, and at seven years of age, joined TSV Unterhaching. Since 1995, he has trained in the regional training center in Munich. Since 1997, Nguyen was part of the squad perspective, where Andreas Hirsch and Jens Milbradt were his coaches. He rose quickly from the D- to B-squad. Since 2002, he has started for the Junior National Team. In 2005, Nguyen was the German junior champion on parallel bars, runner-up on rings and third in the vault. That same year he took part in the World Championships in Melbourne for the first time and placed 16th on the parallel bars. After the World Cup, Nguyen spent a year at the sports boarding school in Stuttgart in order to prepare with his teammates under the coaches Anatoli Jarmovski and Klaus Nigl for the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus.

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, Marcel won two Olympic silver medals after competing in the Men's artistic team all-around, floor and parallel bars. Marcel Nguyen collected the first all-round gymnastics medal for Germany since the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin.

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