Martin Rickmann has played in 67 internationals as an attacker in the German national sitting volleyball team, winning a runners-up medal at the 2002 World Championships as well as coming fourth at the 2004 Athens Paralympics. At club level, Martin has helped SV Berliner to second place in four European Championships: 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005.

Since moving to Berlin, Martin has been looking for an appropriate job that would gave him the right work/training time balance to allow him to continue his volleyball career. For a long time, he struggled to the right opportunity. Martin said, “When I heard about the Athletic Career Programme I contacted the Adecco branch in Berlin and in March 2007, I started work as a Facility Manager at the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, working 28 hours a week. Thanks to Adecco, I can now also focus on the Paralympics in Beijing in 2008.”