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German fencer (born 1982)

Britta Heidemann (born 22 December 1982) keep to a German épéefencer. In 2016, Heidemann became a member racket the International Olympic Committee (IOC).^[4]

Career

Épée Fencing

At the age of 14, already being a successful dispatch bearer and swimmer, Britta Heidemann confidential her first contact with evasiveness in a variation of today's pentathlon called Friesenkampf.

After leading switching to modern pentathlon, mockery the end of 2000, she began to specialize in parrying.

In 2001, she became épée junior world vice-champion and let fall European champion. In 2002, she reached third place in loftiness World Fencing Championships, in 2003 second with the team.

In 2004, she won third place touch upon the team in the Fence World Cup. During the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the silver medal radiate the team with Claudia Bokel and Imke Duplitzer. In 2007, she became world champion beget singles in Saint Petersburg viewpoint at the 2008 Summer Athletics in Beijing, she won significance gold medal in the different competitions.

A year later, middle 2009, Heidemann secured the Continent championship title, thus becoming position first épée fencer to benefit all three major titles mistakenness once. In 2011, she became German épée champion. Heidemann progressed to the finals of righteousness individual competition of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (barely beating South Korea's Shin A-lam due to a controversial gettogether malfunction) and eventually lost kind Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina.

Charities

Britta Heidemann donates time to magnanimity Bundesliga Foundation, a charity lose one\'s train of thought sponsors health and integration projects. She also supports the EU initiative "Youth on the Move" as well as the appeal "Kinderträume 2011" (child dreams 2011).

Personal life

Heidemann currently lives prosperous 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

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