Marcus Ellis
| Marcus Ellis | |
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| Personal information | |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Born |
14 September 1989 Huddersfield, England |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Handedness | Right |
| Coach | Pete Jeffrey |
| Men's doubles | |
| Highest ranking | 14 (1 December 2016) |
| Current ranking | 17 (27 April 2017) |
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Medal record
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| BWF profile | |
Marcus Ellis is a British badminton player. He was the Men's Doubles champion in the 2016 English National Badminton Championships. Ellis and Chris Langridge won the Bronze Medal in the Men's Doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Marcus Ellis, the youngest son of Sheila and John Ellis, was born on 14 September 1989 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He has an elder brother James. Ellis started playing badminton aged seven when he father took him to the Colne Valley Leisure Centre in Slaithwaite.
Ellis was first educated at Clough Head Junior School in Hudderfield, before attending Colne Valley High School, a state comprehensive school in the village of Linthwaite. He attended high school with Alex Smithies, now the goalkeeper for Huddersfield Town Football Club. He then studied for 6 months at Huddersfield New College before deciding to move away from Huddersfield at the age of 17 so he may train at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes.
In the early years of his professional career, Ellis teamed up with a number of players in the doubles, such as Tom Wolfenden and Peter Mills in the men's doubles, and Gabby Adcock and Mariana Agathangelou in the mixed. He won the men's doubles at the Denmark International in 2013 with Paul van Rietvelde.
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