Marco Vasconcelos Explained

Marco Vasconcelos
Birth Date:7 November 1971
Birth Place:Funchal, Portugal
Height:171 cm
Event:Men's singles and doubles
Country:Portugal
Handedness:Right
Bwf Id:fffc9306-dcfd-45d3-af3c-6a3ce84c9fe7

Marco Paulo Pereira Vasconcelos (born 7 November 1971) is a male badminton player from Portugal.[1] Vasconcelos played a big role in helping the Portuguese team to win bronze at the Helvetia Cup in 2005.

In his home country he won 15 titles at the Portuguese National Badminton Championships. Vasconcelos is currently coaching the Brazil national badminton team.

Career

Vasconcelos played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Richard Vaughan of Great Britain. He also competed in the men's singles at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics, falling in the round of 64 on both occasions.

Achievements

BWF/IBF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 5 runners-up)

Men's singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2006Iceland International Magnus Sahlberg16–21, 21–18, 11–21 Runner-up
2007Fiji International Nicholas Kidd Winner
2007Australia International John Moody16–21, 22–20 Runner-up
2007Iceland International Petr Koukal17–21, 16–21 Runner-up
Men's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1990Israel International Ricardo Fernandes Winner
1995Spanish International Hugo Rodrigues Broddi Kristjánsson
Árni Þór Hallgrímson
Runner-up
2004Italian International Alexandre Paixão Daniel Damgaard-Pedersen
Christopher Bruun Jensen
11–15, 14–17 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marco Vasconcelos. Sports Reference LLC. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418021506/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/marco-vasconcelos-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18. 2010-06-22.