Alexander Koch (fencer)

Alexander Koch (born February 22, 1969 in Bonn ) is a former German fencer who competed for the OFC Bonn .

Life

He was junior world champion in 1988 and individual fencing world champion in 1989 in Denver with the foil . The team was defeated in the final of the team from the Soviet Union and became vice world champion.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Alexander Koch won gold with the team, together with his Bonn teammate Ulrich Schreck and with the Tauberbischofsheimers Udo Wagner , Ingo Weißenborn and Thorsten Weidner . In the same year he was awarded a Bambi .

He also received the silver laurel leaf for his Olympic victory on June 23, 1993.

With Uwe Römer instead of Ulrich Schreck, the team also won gold at the 1993 World Fencing Championships in Essen. In the individual, Koch won his second title after 1989, in the final he defeated the Ukrainian Serhij Holubyzkyj . At the fencing world championships in 1994, Weidner, Wagner, Römer and Koch lost to the Italians in the final.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Alexander Koch , who is now fencing for ETuF Essen, finished sixth with the team.

Awards

• Bearer of the silver bay leaf

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team , Frankfurt 1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V. VIBSS: Article: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: On June 23, 1996, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf in a joint event