Marco Paulo Pereira Vasconcelos (born 7 November 1971) is a male badminton player from Portugal. 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 YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult2006Iceland International Magnus Sahlberg16–21, 21–18, 11–21 Runner-up2007Fiji International Nicholas Kidd Winner2007Australia International John Moody16–21, 22–20 Runner-up2007Iceland International Petr Koukal17–21, 16–21 Runner-up Men's doubles YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult1990Israel International Ricardo Fernandes Winner1995Spanish International Hugo Rodrigues Broddi Kristjánsson Árni Þór Hallgrímson Runner-up2004Italian International Alexandre Paixão Daniel Damgaard-Pedersen Christopher Bruun Jensen11–15, 14–17 Runner-up
BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
Marco Vasconcelos on olympics.com