Britta Heidemann

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Britta Heidemann
At the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born (1982-12-22) 22 December 1982 (age 41)
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
ClubTSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Coached byManfred Kaspar
Medal record
Olympic Games[2][3]
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Individual
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team épée
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Individual
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 St.Petersburg Individual
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Leipzig Team épée
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Turin Team épée
Bronze medal – third place 2007 St.Petersburg Team épée
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team épée
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Individual

Britta Heidemann (born 22 December 1982) is a German épée fencer. In 2016, Heidemann became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[4]

Career

Épée Fencing

At the age of 14, already being a successful athlete and swimmer, Britta Heidemann had her first contact with fencing in a variation of

modern pentathlon
, at the end of 2000, she began to specialize in fencing.

In 2001, she became épée junior world vice-champion and junior European champion. In 2002, she reached third place in the World Fencing Championships, in 2003 second with the team. In 2004, she won third place with the team in the Fencing World Cup. During the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the silver medal in the team with Claudia Bokel and Imke Duplitzer. In 2007, she became world champion in singles in

malfunction) and eventually lost to Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina
.

Charities

Britta Heidemann donates time to the

Bundesliga Foundation
, a charity that sponsors health and integration projects. She also supports the EU initiative "Youth on the Move" as well as the campaign "Kinderträume 2011" (child dreams 2011).

Personal life

Heidemann currently lives in Cologne.

See also

Bibliography

  • Erfolg ist eine Frage der Haltung: Was Sie vom Fechten für das Leben lernen können., Ariston, München 2011,
    ISBN 978-3424200614

References

  1. ^ "Biographie Fechtweltmeisterin Britta Heidemann". Britta-Heidemann.de (in German). Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Britta Heidemann". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Britta Heidemann". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Britta Heidemann". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

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