Nicolas Limbach
Nicolas Limbach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Limbach at the 2013 team France national championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1985-12-29) 29 December 1985 (age 38) Eupen, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb; 14.3 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach | Vilmoș Szabo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TSV Bayer Dormagen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Vilmoș Szabo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Nicolas Limbach (born 29 December 1985) is a German fencer, world champion in 2009 and team world champion in 2014. He won the Fencing World Cup in 2008–2009, 2009–2010 and 2011–2012.
Biography
Limbach was born in a family closely involved in fencing: his father directs the fencing section of TSV Bayer Dormagen and his younger sister Anna also fences for Germany. He took up the sport at the age of six.
In 2005, Limbach won a gold medal in the individual and the team events of the Junior World Championships in Linz. The same year, he climbed his first podium in the Fencing World Cup with a victory in Athens and he joined the national senior team. At the 2005 European Championships, he reached the quarter-finals. At the 2007 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal after losing to Italy's Aldo Montano.
A bronze medal in the Plovdiv World Cup allowed him to qualify to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the individual event, he defeated 15–7 Marcin Koniusz of Poland in the table of 32, then lost 14–15 to Aliaksandr Buikevich of Belarus.
He defeated Rareș Dumitrescu of Romania to win the 2009 World Championships in Antalya. He also won a silver medal at the 2010 and 2011 World Fencing Championships.
He won the World Cup 2009 and 2010. The TSV Bayer Dormagen athlete is only the second German to have ever won a gold medal with the sabre after Felix Becker in 1994.[1]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals in men's individual sabre. He was also on the German Men's Sabre team which finished fifth. He won the 2015 Seoul Grand Prix.
References
- ^ Sport Bayer
External links
- Profile at the European Fencing Confederation
- v
- t
- e
- 1937: Pál Kovács
- 1938: Aldo Montano, Sr.
- 1947: Aldo Montano, Sr.
- 1949: Gastone Darè
- 1950: Jean Levavasseur
- 1951: Aladár Gerevich
- 1953: Pál Kovács
- 1954: Rudolf Kárpáti
- 1955: Aladár Gerevich
- 1957: Jerzy Pawłowski
- 1958: Yakov Rylsky
- 1959: Rudolf Kárpáti
- 1961: Yakov Rylsky
- 1962: Zoltán Horváth
- 1963: Yakov Rylsky
- 1965: Jerzy Pawłowski
- 1966: Jerzy Pawłowski
- 1967: Mark Rakita
- 1969: Viktor Sidyak
- 1970: Tibor Pézsa
- 1971: Michele Maffei
- 1973: Mario Aldo Montano
- 1974: Mario Aldo Montano
- 1975: Vladimir Nazlymov
- 1977: Pál Gerevich
- 1978: Viktor Krovopuskov
- 1979: Vladimir Nazlymov
- 1981: Dariusz Wódke
- 1982: Viktor Krovopuskov
- 1983: Vasil Etropolski
- 1985: György Nébald
- 1986: Sergey Mindirgasov
- 1987: Jean-François Lamour
- 1989: Grigory Kiriyenko
- 1990: György Nébald
- 1991: Grigory Kiriyenko
- 1993: Grigory Kiriyenko
- 1994: Felix Becker
- 1995: Grigory Kiriyenko
- 1997: Stanislav Pozdnyakov
- 1998: Luigi Tarantino
- 1999: Damien Touya
- 2001: Stanislav Pozdnyakov
- 2002: Stanislav Pozdnyakov
- 2003: Volodymyr Lukashenko
- 2005: Mihai Covaliu
- 2006: Stanislav Pozdnyakov
- 2007: Stanislav Pozdnyakov
- 2009: Nicolas Limbach
- 2010: Won Woo-young
- 2011: Aldo Montano, Jr.
- 2013: Veniamin Reshetnikov
- 2014: Nikolay Kovalev
- 2015: Aleksey Yakimenko
- 2017: András Szatmári
- 2018: Kim Jung-hwan
- 2019: Oh Sang-uk
- 2022: Áron Szilágyi
- 2023: Eli Dershwitz
This biographical article related to fencing in Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e