Career
In 2012, he became an Olympic silver medalist after competing at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He"s a soldier (currently ranked Corporal) in the Bundeswehr (German military) since July 2007, beginning when he was training in the Bundeswehr Sports Development Group (Sportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr) in Munich. Starting December 23, 2014 Marcel Nguyen represents team KTV Straubenhardt.
Management: 24passion GbR, Stuttgart, Germany
Born to a German mother and a Central Vietnamese father, Nguyen began gymnastics at the age of four, and at seven years of age, joined Turn- und Sportverein 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 Dto B-squad. Since 2002, he has started for the Junior National Team.
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. Marcel Nguyen collected the first all-round gymnastics medal for Germany since the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin. At the European Championships in 2014 he placed 4th on the team, but failed to qualify for any of the individual finals.
In September 2014 Nguyen was at the home championships in Stuttgart on parallel bars and rings where he tore his Anterior Cruciate Ligament.