Azza Besbès

Azza Besbès (2013)

Azza Besbès ( Arabic عزة بسباس; * November 28, 1990 in Abu Dhabi ) is a Tunisian saber fencer .

Life

She is fighting for CSKA Moscow . Her siblings Hela , Sarra and Ahmed Aziz are also successful in fencing.

successes

Besbès trains in France at the Cercle d'escrime d'Orléans. She collected first ranking points in the spring of 2006 with rank 27 at the Junior World Championships in Taebaek . In the following year she reached fifth place at the same event in Belek and three months later she was second in the African Games in Algiers .

In April 2008 she became African champion in Casablanca . As the best-placed African athlete in the world rankings, she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . There, the 17-year-old made it into the quarter-finals as the first African athlete ever in the history of women's Olympic fencing, where she was defeated by the American Rebecca Ward with just 14:15 .

At the 2010 World Championships in Paris she reached seventh place and ninth place at the 2011 World Championships in Catania. In 2012 she took part again in the Olympic Games in London, she lost in the round of 16 against Dagmara Wozniak from the USA 13:15 and finished in ninth place.

In 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 she was again African champion.

At the 2017 World Cup in Leipzig she won the silver medal.

Web links

Commons : Azza Besbes  - Collection of Images

• Azza Besbes - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Besbes Azza - Biography in the database of the European Fencing Confederation (English)
• Azza Besbes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).