Esther Weber

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Esther Weber
medal table

fencing

GermanyGermany Germany
Paralympic Games
gold 1992 Barcelona Sword
gold 1992 Barcelona foil
gold 1996 Atlanta Sword
gold 1996 Atlanta Epee team
gold 1996 Atlanta foil
gold 1996 Atlanta Foil team
gold 2000 Sydney Sword
gold 2000 Sydney Epee team
gold 2000 Sydney foil
gold 2000 Sydney Foil team
fencing World championships
bronze 1990 Assen
bronze 1990 Assen
silver 1994 Hong Kong
bronze 1994 Hong Kong
gold 1998 Euskirchen
bronze 1998 Euskirchen
silver 2002 Budapest
silver 2002 Budapest
silver 2002 Budapest
fencing European championships
bronze 1991 Malle
bronze 1995 Blackpool
gold 1997 Paris Sword
gold 1997 Paris Epee team
silver 1997 Paris
silver 2001 Madrid
bronze 2001 Madrid
bronze 2001 Madrid
silver 2003 Paris
bronze 2003 Paris
bronze 2003 Paris
fencing German championships
gold 1988 foil
gold 1990 Sword
gold 1991 foil
gold 1992 Sword
gold 1992 foil
gold 1994 Sword
gold 1994 foil
gold 1996 Sword
gold 1996 foil
gold 1997 Sword
gold 1997 foil
gold 1998 Sword
gold 2000 foil
gold 2001 foil
gold 2002 Sword
gold 2003 Sword
gold 2004 foil

Esther Weber (born December 23, 1967 in Waldkirch ) is a German wheelchair fencer . At the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona , she won the gold medal in the epee singles and bronze in the foil singles. After winning the gold medal, Weber became a member of the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club and established wheelchair fencing as an integrative department at the Tauberbischofsheim Olympic base .

Life

The athlete, who was paralyzed by a car accident at the age of 15, won a total of ten Paralympic medals between 1992 and 2004. She also won the world title in wheelchair fencing.

Esther Weber married the sports journalist Holger Kranz in 1993 and is the mother of two children. A school for the disabled in Emmendingen was named after her. At the suggestion of the CDU parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament , she was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly in May 2009 .

Further sporting successes

In 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996–1998, 2002 and 2003 Weber was German champion in wheelchair epee fencing. She won the German foil championship in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2004. At the European championship in Paris in 1997 she was European champion in the epee singles and in teams. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, she won team silver in epee fencing, bronze in individual epee, bronze in foil team and also bronze in forett individual competition. At the Summer Paralympics 2000 in Sydney she won the silver medal with the team in epee fencing and in the individual foil competition. She won bronze individually in epee fencing and in a team with the foil.

Awards

Esther Weber on the walk of fame in the spa gardens of Bad Krozingen
  • Three times wearer of the silver bay leaf
  • Fair Play Trophy of the Association of German Sports Journalists 1993
  • Sportswoman of the year of the city of Freiburg 1992
  • Fach-Sport-Preis 1992
  • Baden's sportswoman of the year 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 (choice of readers of the Badische Zeitung)
  • SPORT 2000 Award for Disabled Sports (Team) 1998
  • Georg von Opel Prize 2000 "The silent winners" in the category "Special fighters"
  • Prize of the Federal Minister of the Interior for Tolerance and Fair Play in Sport for special services 2004
  • 2012 London Paralympics torchbearer over Tower Bridge

Volunteering

  • Former active spokesperson for the wheelchair fencing department in the DRS
  • Former member of the presidium of the German Olympic Society (DOG)
  • Speaker for the project "Disabled people help non-disabled people"
  • Speaker and representative at Sportler calls Sportler (SRS)
  • Ambassador of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • Member of the "EJES" ALLSTAR team 2004 of the European Union (EU)
  • Elder of the Protestant parish of Kollnau
  • Ambassador "Hope for Children in the Elztal"
  • Patron "EDENerdig"

Fencing clubs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d http://esther-weber.de/de/Fechten.html
  2. ↑ Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Epee Individual 2
  3. ↑ Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Foil Individual 2
  4. ↑ FROM THE HEATING CELLAR TO THE OLYMPIC VICTORY. THE SUCCESS STORY OF FC TAUBERBISCHOFSHEIM. Fecht-Club Tauberbischofsheim eV, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Esther Weber-Kranz , Internationales Sportarchiv 39/1993 from September 20, 1993 (cw). Divorce Waldkirch March 3, 2009. Supplemented by news from MA journal up to week 44/2004, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  6. ^ Esther Weber School
  7. ↑ SCHOOL IS IN FUTURE "ESTHER-WEBER-SCHULE" - a handicapped person as namesake. VDK website, accessed on March 1, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Landtag elects members of the 13th Federal Assembly. Press release 25/2009 of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg - March 18, 2009, accessed on December 25, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Esther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber-Kranz, Esther (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wheelchair fencer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirch , Germany