APPEL Max

World Championships

Year	Location	4x
2019	Linz, AUT	5
2017	Sarasota, FL, USA	8

European Championships

Year	Location	2x	4x
2020	Poznan, POL	-	6
2019	Lucerne, SUI	-	4
2018	Glasgow, GBR	7	-
2017	Racice, CZE	4	-

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Quadruple Sculls	2019	Rotterdam, NED	6:01.91
3	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Sabaudia, ITA	5:41.35
3	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Zagreb, CRO	5:49.65
4	Quadruple Sculls	2019	Poznan, POL	6:03.50
6	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	6:00.90
6	Quadruple Sculls	2017	Poznan, POL	5:45.07
9	Quadruple Sculls	2017	Lucerne, SUI	5:59.54
11	Single Sculls	2018	Belgrade, SRB	6:53.29

World Championships Under 23

Year	Location	2x
2016	Rotterdam, NED	1

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Fishing. (Instagram profile, 18 Apr 2020; sxulls.de, 10 Mar 2020)

Armed Forces, Athlete

Partner Lena Dankel

English, German

SC Magdeburg [Germany]

Roland Oesemann, [club], GER; Marcus Schwarzrock [national], GER

His father Sven Appel competed in rowing for the German Democratic Republic and won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 1987 World Junior Championships in Cologne, Germany. His sister Emma Appel won a silver medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2019 U23 World Championships in Sarasota, FL, United States of America. His partner Lena Dankel has also represented Germany in rowing, including at the 2015 U23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Apr 2020; sxulls.de, 10 Mar 2020; worldrowing.com, 01 Jan 2019)

He missed four weeks of training in early 2019 due to an operation on his heart to correct an irregular rhythm. (sxulls.de, 10 Mar 2020)

He joined his first rowing club at age 12. He also did athletics and gymnastics in his youth, before focusing on rowing. (starksoul.com, 05 June 2019; stadtmarketing-magdeburg.de, 19 Aug 2019)

His father was a rower. "I grew up around water. During holidays we always did a lot of canoeing." (sxulls.de, 10 Mar 2020; starksoul.com, 05 June 2019; stadtmarketing-magdeburg.de, 19 Aug 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (stadtmarketing-magdeburg.de, 19 Aug 2019)

He does 10 to 14 training sessions a week at the national training centre in Hamburg, Germany. (lubecker-nachrichten, 19 Aug 2019; ln-online.de, 06 Apr 2020)

German rower Marcel Hacker. (stadtmarketing-magdeburg.de, 19 Aug 2019)

In 2013 he was named Male Athlete of the Year in Ratzeburg, Germany, in a poll conducted by city officials. (wordpress.ratzeburger-rc.de, 28 Mar 2014)