Annette Klug

Annette Klug (born January 24, 1969 in Singen am Hohentwiel ) is a former German fencer from the Federal Republic of Germany who became Olympic champion with the team in 1988.

Life

In 1988, Klug graduated from the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Tauberbischofsheim . She fought for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club .

successes

1986 Klug became German junior champion. In 1988 she finished second at the World Cup tournament in Turin. In the internal elimination for a place in the German Olympic team in 1988, she prevailed against the 1985 team world champion Susanne Lang .

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Anja Fichtel , Sabine Bau and Zita Funkenhauser won the three medals in the individual ranking. In the team competition, these three female fencers were seeded, Annette Klug competed in the preliminary round against the United States and the United Kingdom and won only two of her five bouts. As of the quarter-finals, Christiane Weber , who was almost seven years older, came back to the team. Fichtel, Bau, Funkenhauser and Weber asserted themselves sovereignly in the further course of the tournament and finally won the final against Italy. Annette Klug also received the Olympic gold medal for her work in the preliminary round.

For this she received, like the other German medalists, the silver laurel leaf.

literature

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

Web links

• Annette Klug in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. (No longer available online.) MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.