Björn Joppien (born January 30, 1981) is a male

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player from

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Career

Joppien played

badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex Goudi Olympic Complex is a sports complex in Athens, Greece. It held two of the sports venues used during the 2004 Summer Olympics. Goudi Oly ...

in men's singles, defeating Kasperi Salo of

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in the first round. In the round of 16, Joppien was defeated by

Ronald Susilo Ronald Susilo (; born 6 June 1979) is a Singaporean former badminton player. Susilo was ranked sixth, his highest ranking, in 2004. Susilo started his badminton career at age 19 and had represented Singapore since 2002. He had represented Singa ...

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. In 2007 Joppien won the Men's Singles at the

German National Badminton Championships The German National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Germany. The tournament started in 1953 in West Germany, and in 1961 in East Germany. Past winners West Germany East Germany Germany ...

. In 2010 Joppien retired from professional Badminton because he had recurrent back problems.

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* * * * 1981 births Living people German male badminton players Olympic badminton players of Germany Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics {{Germany-badminton-bio-stub