Markus Baur

{{short description|German handball player (born 1971)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox handball biography

| name = Markus Baur

| image = Markus_Baur_01.jpg

| caption = Baur in 2007

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|22 January 1971}}

| birth_place = Meersburg, West Germany

| position = Centre back

| height = 190 cm

| years1 =

| clubs1 = TSV Mimmenhausen

| years2 = {{0|0000}}-1993

| clubs2 = VfL Pfullingen

| years3 = 1993-1997

| clubs3 = SG Wallau-Massenheim

| years4 = 1997-1998

| clubs4 = TV Niederwürzbach

| years5 = 1998-2001

| clubs5 = HSG Wetzlar

| years6 = 2001-2007

| clubs6 = TBV Lemgo

| years7 = 2007

| clubs7 = Pfadi Winterthur (player-coach)

| nationalteam1 = Germany

| nationalyears1 = 1994-2008

| nationalcaps1 = 228

| nationalgoals1 = 712

| manageryears1 = 2008–2009

| managerclubs1 = TBV Lemgo

| manageryears2 = 2009–2010

| managerclubs2 = TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke

| manageryears3 = 2013–2015

| managerclubs3 = Kadetten Schaffhausen

| manageryears4 = 2016–2018

| managerclubs4 = TVB 1898 Stuttgart

| manageryears5 = 2022–

| managerclubs5 = Frisch Auf Göppingen

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalOlympics}}

{{MedalSilver| 2004 Athens | Team }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}

{{MedalGold | 2007 Germany | Team }}

{{MedalSilver | 2003 Portugal | Team }}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championship}}

{{MedalGold | 2004 Slovenia | Team }}

{{MedalSilver | 2002 Sweden | Team }}

}}

Markus Baur (born 22 January 1971) is a German handball coach and former player.

Born in Meersburg, he is a member of the Germany national team since 1994, making his debut against Morocco on 4 August in Balingen. The German handball player of the years 2000 and 2002, he won the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship and the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship. As of January 2007, he has made 200 international matches with 615 goals.

In the Bundesliga Baur played for SG Wallau-Massenheim from 1993 to 1997, between 1997 and 1998 for TV Niederwürzbach and from 1998 to 2001 for HSG Wetzlar. Since 2001, he plays for TBV Lemgo, winning the National Championship of Germany with his team in 2003 and the EHF Cup in 2006. In 1994 and 2002, he has also won the DHB-Pokal.