Benjamin Kleibrink
| Benjamin Kleibrink medal table |
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 Benjamin Kleibrink at the 2007 European Fencing Championships |
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 Germany
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 Olympic games
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| gold | 2008 Beijing | foil |
| bronze | 2012 London | Foil team |
 World championships
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| bronze | 2005 Leipzig | Foil team |
| silver | 2006 Turin | Foil team |
| bronze | 2007 St. Petersburg | foil |
| silver | 2007 St. Petersburg | Foil team |
| silver | 2008 Beijing | Foil team |
| silver | 2009 Antalya | Foil team |
| bronze | 2011 Catania | Foil team |
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European championships
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| bronze | 2006 Izmir | foil |
| silver | 2007 Ghent | foil |
| gold | 2007 Ghent | Foil team |
| bronze | 2009 Plovdiv | Foil team |
| silver | 2012 Legnano | foil |
| bronze | 2012 Legnano | Foil team |
| silver | 2019 Düsseldorf | Foil team |
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German championships
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| gold | 2005 | foil |
| bronze | 2006 | foil |
| silver | 2007 | foil |
| gold | 2008 | foil |
| gold | 2010 | foil |
| silver | 2010 | Foil team |
| gold | 2011 | foil |
| gold | 2011 | Foil team |
| bronze | 2012 | foil |
| bronze | 2017 | foil |
| bronze | 2017 | Foil team |
| bronze | 2018 | foil |
| bronze | 2018 | Foil team |
Benjamin Kleibrink (born July 30, 1985 in Düsseldorf ) is a German foil fencer and five-time German champion. Kleibrink celebrated his greatest success at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing by winning the gold medal. Kleibrink is the first German individual Olympic champion in the men's floret weapon.
His greatest successes to date were the Junior World Championship title at the Junior World Championship 2005 in Linz / Austria , the Vice European Championship in individual and the European Championship title with the team (together with Peter Joppich , Dominik Behr and Christian Schlechtweg ) at the European Fencing Championship 2007 in Gent / Belgium , as well as the bronze medal in the individual after a defeat against his training partner and later world champion Peter Joppich in the semifinals of the fencing world championships 2007 in Saint Petersburg .
Life
Benjamin Kleibrink was born in Düsseldorf in 1985 and was a student at the Archbishop's St. Ursula High School , where he graduated from high school in 2005. Since 2006 he has been studying sports science at the German Sport University in Cologne after completing his military service as a sports soldier. He already had many successes in school and youth, among other things he was German champion in the A-youth and in the juniors. Since 2003 he has competed for OFC Bonn , previously he fought for FC Moers (1999–2003) and TG Neuss (1994–1999). In November 2008, Kleibrink left OFC Bonn and started in February 2009 for FC Tauberbischofsheim . He continues to train under national and home trainer Uli Schreck at the Bonn base.
The left-hander won several World Cup tournaments, including winning the traditional Grand Prix tournament in Paris in 2006 and 2007 and becoming German champion in 2005 and 2008. At the 2006 World Cup in Turin / Italy , he finished fifth after losing to his training partner and future world champion Peter Joppich. At the 2005 World Cup in Leipzig he and the team (together with Peter Joppich, Dominik Behr and Ralf Bißdorf ) won the bronze medal. He secured the runner-up title with the team at the 2006 World Cup in Turin (with Richard Breutner instead of Ralf Bißdorf), in 2007 in St. Petersburg / Russia (with Christian Schlechtweg instead of Richard Breutner) and in 2008 in Beijing / China (this time again with Richard Breutner instead of Christian Schlechtweg).
In July 2007, Benjamin Kleibrink was elected athlete of the month by Deutsche Sporthilfe in cooperation with Kicker .
At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kleibrink won the gold medal in the foil singles. In the final he defeated the Japanese Yūki Ōta with 15: 9 goals and thus won the first German fencing Olympic title since 1992 and the first in individual since 1988. Benjamin Kleibrink had previously eliminated the Chinese Zhu Jun and Lei Sheng in the semi-finals and quarter-finals . His final opponent Ōta had previously defeated the other German favorite Peter Joppich in the quarter-finals. With the team, he won bronze in the men's floret at the 2012 Olympic Games . After the 2012 Olympic Games, Benjamin Kleibrink retired from competitive sports at the age of 27.
At the end of 2015 he returned to competitive sport and resumed training in Ulrich Schreck's training group. Kleibrink is one of the nominees to represent Germany in men's florets at the 2016 European Fencing Championships in Toruń. At the beginning of June 2016, a few days after being nominated, he was seriously injured in an assault in Shanghai after the end of the foil Grand Prix there. At the German Fencing Championships 2017 Kleibrink was able to win the bronze medal in foil both individually and with the team.
Honors
In 2008 Benjamin was named “Sportsman of the Year” by North Rhine-Westphalia with the “Felix” .
successes
Single successes
- 2004
- Bronze: Junior World Championship in Plovdiv
- 2005
- Gold: Junior World Championship in Linz
- Gold: German fencing championships
- Bronze: European Junior Championship in Espinho
- 2006
- Bronze: European Championship in Izmir
- Gold: Grand Prix "Challenge Rommel" in Paris
- Bronze: German fencing championships
- 2007
- Bronze: World Championship in St. Petersburg
- Silver: European Championship in Ghent
- Gold: Grand Prix "Challenge Rommel" in Paris
- Silver: German fencing championships
- 2008
- Gold: Beijing Olympic Games
- Gold: German fencing championships
- 2010
- Gold: German fencing championships
- 2011
- Gold: German fencing championships
- 2012
- Silver: European Championship in Legnano
- Bronze: German fencing championships
- 2017
- Bronze: German fencing championships
- 2018
- Bronze: German fencing championships
Team successes
- 2005
- Bronze: World Championship in Leipzig
- 2006
- Silver: World Championship in Turin
- 2007
- Silver: World Championship in St. Petersburg
- Gold: European Championship in Ghent
- 2008
- Silver: World Team Championship in Beijing
- 2009
- Silver: World Team Championship in Antalya
- Bronze: European Team Championship in Plovdiv
- 2010
- Silver: German fencing championships
- 2011
- Gold: German fencing championships
- Bronze: Team World Championship in Catania
- 2012
- Bronze: Olympic Games in London
- Bronze: European team championship in Legnano
- 2017
- Bronze: German fencing championships
- 2018
- Bronze: German fencing championships
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the German Sport University Cologne: Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne
- ↑ General-Anzeiger (nik): Kleibrink signs off from OFC Bonn . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH. November 20, 2008. Archived from the original on December 17, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2009.
- ↑ Kleibrink deregisters from OFC Bonn , General-Anzeiger (Bonn) from November 20, 2008
- ↑ Olympic champion Benjamin Kleibrink picks up his foil again. Deutscher Fechterbund eV, October 22, 2015, accessed on June 8, 2016 .
- ^ German Fencing Federation nominated for European fencing championships. Deutscher Fechterbund eV, June 3, 2016, accessed on June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Benjamin Kleibrink seriously injured after being assaulted. Deutscher Fechterbund eV, June 7, 2016, accessed on June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ nrw-sportlerdesjahres.de
1896 : Eugène-Henri Gravelotte & Leonidas Pyrgos (fencing masters) | 1900 : Émile Coste & Lucien Mérignac (fencing masters) | 1904 : Ramón Fonst | 1906 (unofficial) : Georges Dillon-Cavanagh | 1912 : Nedo Nadi | 1920 : Nedo Nadi | 1924 : Roger Ducret | 1928 : Lucien Gaudin | 1932 : Gustavo Marzi | 1936 : Giulio Gaudini | 1948 : Jéhan Buhan | 1952 : Christian d'Oriola | 1956 : Christian d'Oriola | 1960 : Viktor Schdanowitsch | 1964 : Egon Franke | 1968 : Ion Drîmbă | 1972 : Witold Woyda | 1976 : Fabio Dal Zotto | 1980 : Vladimir Smirnov | 1984 : Mauro Numa | 1988 : Stefano Cerioni | 1992 : Philippe Omnès | 1996 : Alessandro Puccini | 2000 : Kim Young-ho | 2004 : Brice Guyart | 2008 : Benjamin Kleibrink | 2012 : Lei Sheng | 2016 : Daniele Garozzo
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kleibrink, Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleibrink, Benny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German foil fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |