Gesine Schiel
Gesine Schiel (born March 29, 1976 in Stockholm ) is a former German fencer who was third at the 1997 World Cup with the foil team.
Life
Growing up in Frankfurt, the doctor's daughter Gesine Schiel began playing at the fencing club Offenbach at the age of ten, and when she was twelve she moved to Tauberbischofsheim and joined the local FC Tauberbischofsheim . In Tauberbischofsheim Schiel attended the Tauberbischofsheim commercial school . In 1994 she won the European Junior Championship.
At the 1997 World Fencing Championships , the resigned Anja Fichtel and Zita Funkenhauser were no longer part of the German team. With Rita König and Gesine Schiel, Sabine Bau and Monika Weber had two young fencers at their side, together they took third place in the team ranking behind the fencers from Italy and Romania.
At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , Bau, König and Weber formed the German team. Gesine Schiel traveled to Australia as a substitute fencer, but was not used. At the 2001 World Fencing Championships , Gesine Schiel took sixth place with the German team.
Web links
- History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gesine Schiel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- ↑ 75 years of the Tauberbischofsheim Commercial School , StieberDruck GmbH, 113 pages, TBB 1997, p. 49
- ↑ Degen team gets silver ntv article from July 5, 2001 (accessed on July 24, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiel, Gesine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German foil fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |