Britta Heidemann

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Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann podium 2013 Fencing WCH EFS-IN t214721.jpg
At the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born (1982-12-22) 22 December 1982 (age 38)
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
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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 called . After first switching to 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 Saint Petersburg and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won the gold medal in the individual competitions. A year later, in 2009, Heidemann secured the European championship title, thus becoming the first épée fencer to hold all three major titles at once. In 2011, she became German épée champion. Heidemann progressed to the finals of the individual competition of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (barely beating South Korea's Shin A-lam due to a controversial clock 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. 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". The International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

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