Britta Heidemann

Britta Heidemann medal table
Britta Heidemann (2018)
fencing
Germany
Olympic games
	2004 Athens	Epee team
	2008 Beijing	Sword
	2012 London	Sword
World championships
bronze	2002 Lisbon	Sword
silver	2003 Havana	Epee team
bronze	2005 Leipzig	Epee team
bronze	2006 Turin	Epee team
gold	2007 St. Petersburg	Sword
bronze	2007 St. Petersburg	Epee team
bronze	2008 Beijing	Epee team
bronze	2009 Antalya	Epee team
silver	2010 Paris	Epee team
bronze	2013 Budapest	Sword
silver	2014 Kazan	Sword
European championships
bronze	2006 Izmir	Epee team
bronze	2007 Ghent	Sword
silver	2008 Kiev	Epee team
gold	2009 Plovdiv	Sword
silver	2011 Sheffield	Sword

Britta Heidemann (born December 22, 1982 in Cologne ) is a German fencer for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In 2007 she became world champion with the sword in St. Petersburg , 2008 Olympic champion in Beijing and 2009 European champion in Plovdiv . This made her the first female epee fencer to win the "Golden Triple".

Life

Heidemann attended the Apostle High School in Cologne . She went to China for the first time with her family in the mid-1990s. At the beginning of high school, she went to Beijing for three months in the summer of 1998 . After graduating from high school, she also completed an internship at Bayer AG there in 2001 . In 2008 she successfully completed a degree in regional science in China at the University of Cologne . Her diploma thesis deals with the development of alternative energies in China, especially wind power, and their legal framework.

Heidemann lives in Cologne. She is fluent in Chinese . She works as a freelance business consultant in the areas of China, renewable energies, sports and management. In addition, she is socially committed in many areas. So she is u. a. Patron of the 2011 Children's Dreams social campaign of the German Football Association (DFB). Since 2010 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the DFL Foundation , which supports the socially disadvantaged and disadvantaged as well as young German athletes. In 2009 she was honored with the Sparkasse Prize for role models in sport . In 2016, Heidemann took on the role of godmother for the honorary award of the city of Cologne.

Athletic career

Athletic career

Britta Heidemann first came into contact with fencing relatively late at the age of 14. Before that, she was a successful athlete and swimmer. From 1995 she was introduced to foil fencing through the Frisian fight . She was German Frisian Fighting Champion five times. Two years later she switched to epee fencing . She took part in modern pentathlon until 2000, and it wasn't until the end of 2000 that she began to specialize in fencing. Just one year later, this was rewarded with international titles.

Success in epee fencing

In 2001 she became Vice Junior World Champion and Junior European Champion. In 2002 she was third in the world championship and second in the world championship in 2003 with the team. In 2004 she finished third in the team world cup. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she achieved silver behind the team from Russia in the team with Claudia Bokel and Imke Duplitzer . In 2007 she became world champion in singles in Saint Petersburg. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she won the gold medal in the individual competition. A year later, in 2009, Heidemann secured the triple with the European championship title and is thus the first female epee fencer to hold all three major titles at the same time. In addition to this unique achievement, Heidemann also achieved numerous successes at world cup tournaments.

In 2011 Heidemann won her first German championship in epee fencing.

In 2012 she reached the final in epee fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , but lost in extra time and thus won silver on the third day of the competition, the first German medal at these Olympic Games.

In 2013 Heidemann won bronze in singles at the World Championships in Budapest , and in 2014 silver in Kazan .

In the tournament of the last hope, Heidemann failed in the quarterfinals and thus did not qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics .

On February 2, 2018, Heidemann announced that she would end her sporting career.

Others

• In the September 2004 issue, she was photographed naked for Playboy magazine .
• Heidemann is considered the best-known and most popular German sportswoman in China, only the athletes Dirk Nowitzki and Timo Boll are more well-known and popular there. In 2008, she became the first foreign athlete to appear in the Chinese edition of the sports studio . There she was seen in a 45-minute live interview in Chinese. The program saw around 150 million people.
• Heidemann is a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation (formerly Bundesliga Foundation) .
• In 2008 Heidemann came second in the election for Germany's Sportswoman of the Year .
• Since 2014 Heidemann has been the honorary ambassador of the Movement Against Cancer of the German Cancer Aid together with the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the German Sport University Cologne .
• On May 30, 2015, she carried the trophy to the Berlin Olympic Stadium for the DFB Cup final .
• At the 2016 Olympic Games she was elected to the IOC Athletes Commission by the participating athletes.
• In August 2017 Heidemann was elected to the supervisory board of 1. FC Köln .
• Heidemann is the godmother of the non-profit association KIDsmiling - a project for children and young people in need .
• At the beginning of 2019, Heidemann took part in the show Ewige Helden on the TV channel VOX .

Honors

Britta Heidemann at the reception given by the Lord Mayor of Cologne Jürgen Roters for Cologne Olympians and Paralympics athletes (2012)

• 2008: " Felix " as "Sportswoman of the Year" from North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2008: Award as "Cologne Sportswoman of the Year"
• 2009: Sparkasse Prize for role models in sport
• 2012: Silver bay leaf
• 2012: "Felix" as "Sportswoman of the Year" from North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2013: Award as "Cologne Sportswoman of the Year 2012"

Works

• Success is a question of attitude: what fencing can teach you for life . Ariston, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-424-20061-4 .
• Welcome to the realm of contrasts: China up close . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-785-72517-7 .

Web links

Commons : Britta Heidemann  - Collection of images

• Britta Heidemann's website
• Athlete biography - Britta Heidemann at Ophardt Team Sportevent
• Britta Heidemann - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Heidemann Britta - Biography in the database of the European Fencing Confederation (English)
• Britta Heidemann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).
• Britta Heidemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview in the ZDF morning magazine from March 11, 2008
2. ↑ ^{a b} Questionnaire: Britta Heidemann - 13 questions. In: focus.de. August 11, 2008, accessed May 15, 2012 . 
3. ^ Britta Heidemann biography. In: britta-heidemann.de. Retrieved July 30, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Manfred Reinnarth: Honorary sponsor in Cologne: Fencer Britta Heidemann as sponsor for Cologne honorary award . In: rundschau-online.de. Retrieved February 5, 2016 . 
5. ^ Olaf Wolf: Heidemann and Kneip German Epee Masters 2011. Deutscher Fechter-Bund eV, April 16, 2011, accessed on January 28, 2015 . 
6. ^ Silver for Heidemann: huge scandal about Germany's first medal. Welt Online, July 30, 2012, accessed July 30, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Fencer Heidemann officially ends her career. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 2, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 
8. ^ Fencer Britta Heidemann: Allez! In: spiegel.de. November 24, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Brochure from the Bundesliga Foundation. (PDF; 6.8 MB) In: bundesliga-stiftung.de. May 10, 2010, p. 47 , archived from the original on May 18, 2013 ; Retrieved July 30, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Felix 2012: Winner 2008. In: nrw-sportlerdesjahres.de. Retrieved July 30, 2012 . 
11. ^ Starting shot for the "Movement Against Cancer" campaign. (No longer available online.) German Cancer Aid, March 11, 2014, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 . 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.  
12. ↑ Heidemann carries a trophy into the stadium: "How do I do it without an accident?" German Football Association, May 31, 2015, accessed on July 4, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Britta Heidemann elected to the IOC athletes commission
14. ↑ HEIDEMANN IN THE FC SUPERVISORY BOARD , on fc.de, accessed on August 28, 2017.
15. ↑ Our godparents - KIDsmiling eV In: KIDsmiling eV ( kidsmiling.de [accessed on November 29, 2017]). Our sponsors - KIDsmiling eV ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
16. ↑ Silver Laurel Leaf 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012 . 
17. ↑ Cologne's Sportswoman of the Year 2012. February 24, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2013 .