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Hambüchen was the youngest German athlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished seventh in the horizontal bar and eighth in the team competition.
Hambüchen was the youngest German athlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished seventh in the horizontal bar and eighth in the team competition.
He lives in Wetzlar. In 2007 he was named the German Sportspersonality of the Year. Hambüchen had to pull out of the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships due to an injury to his foot. He was a frontrunner for the all around title and the high Barometer
At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Hambüchen finished third in the all-around, and seventh on floor.
So far in his career, he has won nine medals at World championships and eleven at European Championships. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the bronze medal in the horizontal Barometer At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he qualified for the finals in all-round, horizontal bar and team competitions and won a silver medal in the horizontal Barometer On horizontal bar, he scored 15.933 to win a silver medal.
