Anja Fichtel

Anja Fichtel medal table
Anja Fichtel (1995)
fencing
Germany
Olympic games
	1988 Seoul	foil
	1988 Seoul	Foil team
	1992 Barcelona	Foil team
	1996 Atlanta	Foil team
World championships
gold	1985 Barcelona	Foil team
gold	1986 Sofia	foil
bronze	1986 Sofia	Foil team
silver	1989 Denver	foil
gold	1989 Denver	Foil team
gold	1990 Lyon	foil
bronze	1991 Budapest	Foil team
gold	1993 Essen	Foil team
European championships
bronze	1995 The Hague	Foil team
bronze	1996 Limoges	foil
German championships
gold	1986	foil
gold	1987	foil
gold	1988	foil
gold	1989	foil
gold	1990	foil
gold	1991	foil
gold	1992	foil
gold	1994	foil
gold	1995	foil
gold	1996	foil

Anja Fichtel (born August 17, 1968 in Tauberbischofsheim ; during her now divorced Anja Fichtel-Mauritz ) is a former German foil fencer . She became ten-time German individual champion , five-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion in foil. With a total of 14 medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, Fichtel is one of the most successful female fencers of all time.

Life

With Anja Fichtel, the teaching staff of the commercial school TBB is happy about the successes in 1985/86

Anja Fichtel started for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club and attended the Tauberbischofsheim commercial school . The trained travel and office clerk is one of the most successful female fencers in the world as a ten-time German individual champion, holder of the silver laurel leaf and 14-time medalist at the Olympic Games , European and World Championships . At the age of 17 she became the youngest female fencing world champion ever, and at the age of 20 she won two gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul .

In 1992 Fichtel led the German ranking of female foil fencers until the sixth month of pregnancy. Just six weeks after the birth of her first son, Fichtel won the Olympic silver medal in Barcelona in the same year . She did not shy away from confronting her long-time sponsor Emil Beck . At that time she even briefly considered fencing for Austria . Today, however, Fichtel sees this idea as a threat rather than a concrete plan.

Fichtel declared 1997 their withdrawal from the fencing, announced in April 2004 but on that training with her former supervisor Alexander Pusch resume to the season to again participate in competitions of 2005. Fichtel has now ended her fencing career.

In his first marriage Fichtel was married to the Austrian fencer Merten Mauritz , and during this marriage he took on as Anja Fichtel-Mauritz. From this now divorced marriage, Fichtel has two children, of whom her son Laurin Fichtel-Mauritz fights. In July 2006 Fichtel married for the second time, and in October 2006 their third child was born.

In 2011 Fichtel ruled out a return as a functionary in the former medal forge of FC Tauberbischofsheim. She is currently working as a junior trainer at the Tauberbischofsheim Olympic base . As the first female fencer in her sport, Fichtel was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports at the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation in 2015 .

Sporting successes

National successes

• 10-time German individual champion

International individual successes

1986 Gold World Championships Sofia

1988 Gold Olympic Games Seoul

1989 Silver World Championships Denver

1990 Gold World Championships Lyon

1996 Bronze EC Limoges

International team successes

Anja Fichtel (right) at the '93 World Cup in Essen

1985 Gold World Cup Barcelona

1986 Bronze World Cup Sofia

1988 Gold Olympic Games Seoul

1989 Gold World Championships Denver

1991 Bronze World Championships Budapest

1992 Silver Olympic Games Barcelona

1993 Gold WM Essen

1995 Bronze World Championship The Hague

1996 Bronze Olympic Games Atlanta

Others

Anja Fichtel is godmother of the cruise ship Mein Schiff 2 of the shipping company TUI Cruises .

Fichtel, the most successful German female fencer, commented on the situation in German fencing and the prospect of future German Olympic champions as follows:

“You will not be successful as a fencer if you have the right diet or if you run the best times in the forest. You have to fight battles every day. We miss the Emil Becks. Germany was still a fencing bastion under him. It was a catastrophe for him when one of his protégés lost. If someone loses today, the defeat is talked about nicely, according to the motto: the approaches were good, we weren't that bad at all. There is almost no self-criticism. Emil Beck wanted unconditional success and has consistently followed the path there. He didn't let anyone talk him into it. Today one does this, the other that. Everyone cooks his own thing. But you can only achieve really big goals as a team, even in an individual sport. The best example is Jürgen Klopp. He suggests to his boys that if you tear yourself apart, you can do anything. But you can only reach an athlete if, as a trainer, you yourself demonstrate the passion for success. Most coaches just stick to their chairs. If you want to lead athletes to Olympus, you have to be a trainer for 24 hours. But for this he must also be rewarded accordingly. But our system suffers from this extremely. Competitive sport is the hardest work. The reward for this is neglected. We need not be surprised that we have fewer and fewer top athletes. 15,000 euros for an Olympic victory will not attract anyone from behind the stove. Anyone who has battered their bones in competitive sport should also be given the time to retire. Unless something fundamentally changes, there will be even fewer German Olympic champions in the future. "

Awards

• Bearer of the silver bay leaf
• In 2001 Fichtel was named "Fencer of the Century"
• In 2015 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports

literature

• Corinna Egerer, Michael Latzel: Tauberbischofsheim , Fränkische Nachrichten, Tauberbischofsheim 2005, p. 94f. u. P. 98.

Web links

Commons : Anja Fichtel  - Collection of Images

• Anja Fichtel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75 years of the Tauberbischofsheim Commercial School , StieberDruck GmbH, 113 pages, TBB 1997, p. 49
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stern: What does ... ... Anja Fichtel actually do? . A Stern interview with Anja Fichtel. August 24, 2008. Online at www.stern.de. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
3. ↑ Südwest-Presse: "You remain a publisher for life" ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Tauber newspaper on Anja Fichtel's vocational training. May 5, 2010. Online at www.swp.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
4. ^ Corinna Egerer, Michael Latzel: Tauberbischofsheim , Fränkische Nachrichten, Tauberbischofsheim 2005, p. 95.
5. ↑ SWR: Anja Fichtel: Smart fighter with a heart for children . December 6, 2008. Online at www.swr.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
6. ^ Spiegel: Anja Fichtel-Mauritz: When Rainer Henkel let down his pants . Online at www.spiegel.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
7. ^ Rhein-Zeitung: Mother role stops fencing addiction . April 8, 1997. Online at www.rhein-zeitung.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
8. ^ Corinna Egerer, Michael Latzel: Tauberbischofsheim , Fränkische Nachrichten, Tauberbischofsheim 2005, p. 98.
9. ↑ Handelsblatt: Anja Fichtel rules out the role of an official ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). November 11, 2011. Online at www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Anja Fichtel in the "Hall of Fame". Mannheimer Morgen, accessed on September 19, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Tui Chruises: OLYMPICS WINNER ANJA FICHTEL BECOMES GODMODUM OF MEIN SCHIFF 2 . Online at www.tuicruises.com. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
12. ↑ World: Rewards are too bad for such hard work . August 12, 2012. Online at www.welt.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
13. ↑ Süddeutsche: Silbernes Lorbeerblatt - selection of previous award winners - Anja Fichtel . Online at www.sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
14. ↑ Fechtclub Tauberbischofsheim e. V .: Fechtclub Tauberbischofsheim: History ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.fechtentbb.de. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
15. ^ DOSB: Five other members in the "Hall of Fame of German Sports" ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). September 7, 2015. Online at www.dosb.de. Retrieved September 20, 2015.