Claudia Bokel

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Claudia Bokel medal table
Claudia Bokel, 2018
Claudia Bokel, 2018

fencing

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 2004 Athens Epee team
fencing World championships
silver 1993 Essen Epee team
silver 1997 Cape Town Epee team
bronze 1999 Seoul Epee team
gold 2001 Nîmes Sword
silver 2003 Havana Epee team
bronze 2005 Leipzig Epee team
bronze 2006 Turin Epee team
bronze 2007 St. Petersburg Epee team
European championships
bronze 1995 Keszthely Sword
bronze 1998 Plovdiv Sword
gold 1998 Plovdiv Epee team
bronze 1999 Bolzano Sword
gold 2006 Izmir Sword
bronze 2006 Izmir Epee team

Claudia Bokel (born August 30, 1973 in Ter Apel , Netherlands ) is a German sports official and former sword fencer . She became world champion in 2001 and European champion in 2006. From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 2012 an executive member and chair of the Athletes' Commission. She has been President of the German Fencing Association since 2016 .

Life and athletic career

Bokel, who has a Dutch passport in addition to her German passport, grew up in Ter Apel in the Netherlands , but like her older siblings went to a kindergarten in Rütenbrock in Emsland . From 1989 to 1992 she lived at the fencing boarding school in Bonn, and graduated from the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium .

Bokel was first junior world champion in Genoa in 1992 and defended the title in Denver in 1993 . With the team she won World Cup silver in Essen in 1993 , in Cape Town in 1997 and in Havana in 2003 . At the World Fencing Championships in 1999 in Seoul , 2005 in Leipzig , in 2006 in Turin and in 2007 in St. Petersburg , she won the team World Cup bronze. In 2001 she became the first German world champion in Nîmes . In 1998 she was German champion with the team, in 2001, 2003 and 2007 she was German champion in individual, 2005 German champion in individual and with the team. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , together with Imke Duplitzer and Britta Heidemann , she won team silver behind the team from Russia . In 2006 she became European champion in the women's epee singles in Izmir . Bokel, who started competitive fencing at OFC Bonn in 1989 , announced her move to FC Tauberbischofsheim in October 2002 .

Bokel was and is active in various honorary positions. From 2005 to 2009 she was President of the Athletes' Commission of the European Olympic Committees (EOK); she was elected on May 22, 2005 in Kiev with 22 of 26 possible votes. The chemist (2008, Radboud University Nijmegen ) was also a member of the NADA Board of Trustees . She is a member of the DOSB and has been a member of the DOSB Presidium since 2006 . From 2006 to 2007 as chairwoman of the DOSB athletes' commission, from 2008 she was a permanent guest as an IOC member. Since an amendment to the statutes in December 2011, she has been an IOC member of the Executive Committee. On August 21, 2008, Bokel was elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a member of the Athletes' Commission for a period of eight years . She has been Chair of the Athletes' Commission since the London Olympics in 2012 , after serving as Vice Chair since 2010. In October 2016 she was elected President of the German Fencing Association .

Claudia Bokel has been employed as a Senior Consultant at Bayer AG since February 2009 .

Awards

  • 2001: Fencer of the year in Germany
  • 2004: Silver bay leaf
  • 2016 Honorary doctorate from the University of Applied Sciences and Sports Academy Belgrade

Web links

Commons : Claudia Bokel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b IOC: Mrs Claudia BOKEL, IOC Member since 2008. In: www.olympic.org. August 10, 2016, accessed on August 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b IOC member with roots in Emsland. August 22, 2008, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  3. ↑ - Claudia Bokel: "Of course I am rooted in OFC Bonn". In: Generalanzeiger. December 15, 2010, accessed September 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d The German candidacy for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Retrieved September 14, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b Claudia Bokel in the Munzinger archive , accessed on September 14, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  6. ↑ Epee world champion Claudia Bokel leaves OFC Bonn , General-Anzeiger of October 14, 2002
  7. ^ The Structures. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 9, 2011 ; accessed on September 14, 2011 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurolympic.org
  8. ↑ Statutes of the DOSB, accessed on March 28, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 368 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de
  9. ↑ DFB: Claudia Bokel new President of the German Fencing Association. Deutscher Fechter-Bund eV, October 8, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bokel, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sword fencer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ter Apel , Netherlands