Gerlinde Spies
Gerlinde Spies (* 20th century ) is a former German fencer .
Career
Gerlinde Spies was already interested in fencing as a young girl. Therefore she became a member of the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt . She chose foil fencing as a discipline within the fencing sport. She was soon one of the top performers in her club and was therefore used in the national championships in women's floret, both in women's singles and in team competitions. In the team competition , she won the German championship title with the team in 1951. At the German Fencing Championships in 1952 , she won second place in foil singles behind her club mate Lilo Allgayer and thus a silver medal.
For winning the German fencing team championship in 1951, she and all the team members received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Theodor Heuss on December 7, 1951 .
Web links
- "Foil women: Margret Honnef fights against Gerlinde Spiess" (Welt im Bild 16/1952)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Team champions, list of winners of the German Fencing Federation. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ German Fencing Federation (ed.): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 years of fencing in Germany - a success story. Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. pp. 218–225 ISBN 978-3-89899-690-7 .
- ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government, p. 57f. (PDF; 1.8 MB) German Bundestag, September 26, 1973, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spies, Gerlinde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |