23 year-old German gymnast.
Born in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hambüchen was the youngest German athlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished 7th in the Horizontal bar and 8th in the team competition.
Hambüchen had to pull out of the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships because of an injury to his foot. He was a frontrunner for the all around title and the high bar.
He was named male German sportsperson of the year 2007.
