Mathias Gey

Mathias Gey (born July 7, 1960 in Tauberbischofsheim ) is a former German fencer . He was multiple German champion and individual world champion with the foil .

Life

Mathias Gey was born as the son of a civil engineer in Tauberbischofsheim. Gey fought for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club . He graduated from the Martin-Schleyer-Gymnasium in Lauda and then completed a degree in architecture in Würzbung. Until immediately before winning his individual world champion title in foil, he worked on completing his student thesis and completed his architecture studies during his sporting career. Because of his analytical training methods, in which geometry played a major role, he was referred to by many as the "mathematician with the foil". Today Gey runs an architecture office in Tauberbischofsheim .

successes

In 1979 Mathias Gey won his first world championship medal when he won bronze in the team championship together with Matthias Behr , Harald Hein , Thomas Bach and Klaus Reichert . At the fencing world championships in 1981 Behr, Hein, Gey and Frank Beck won bronze again. In Vienna at the World Fencing Championships in 1983 Mathias Gey reached the final in the individual ranking, in which he was defeated by Alexander Romankow . In the team competition, the fencers from the Federal Republic of Germany won their second world championship title after 1977, with Matthias Behr, Harald Hein and Klaus Reichert again in the winning team, while Frank Beck and Mathias Gey became world champions for the first time. Mathias Gey won the German individual championship three times in a row from 1982 to 1984 , and in 1986 and 1990 he won two more titles. At the 1984 Olympic Games , Gey was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Italian Stefano Cerioni and finished sixth. In the team competition, the German team reached the final and met the Italians there. Gey won against Cerioni and against Andrea Borella , but lost against Mauro Numa and Angelo Scuri . The German team lost 7: 8 battles and received the silver medal in the line-up of Hein, Behr, Reichert, Beck and Gey. For this, he and the German fencing team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf.

At the Fencing World Championships in 1986 Matthias Behr and Mathias Gey won silver together with Ulrich Schreck and Thorsten Weidner behind the Italian team. A year later Mathias Gey reached the high point of his career at the fencing world championships in 1987 in Lausanne: in the individual competition he won the final against Matthias Behr, in the team competition Gey, Behr, Schreck, Weidner and Reichert won against the French team. A year later, Gey met Stefan Cerioni again in the quarterfinals of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and finished eighth after his loss to the Italian. The German team with Gey, Behr, Schreck, Weidner and Thomas Endres defeated the Italians in the quarter-finals. After the West German team had also defeated the GDR fencers in the semi-finals, the German fencers met the Soviet team in the final, where they lost quite a lot with 9: 5 battles. In the following year Gey reached the final at the fencing world championships in 1989 together with Thomas Endres, Thorsten Weidner and Alexander Koch , where the German fencers were again defeated by the Soviet team.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Los Angeles 1984 . Frankfurt am Main 1984
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Seoul 1988 . Frankfurt am Main 1988

Web links

• Mathias Gey in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German individual champion in fencing
• World champion in foil fencing

Footnotes

1. ↑ The spelling Matthias is found relatively often. In the official performances of the Olympic team, however, he writes to Mathias.