Gianna Hablützel-Bürki

Gianna Hablützel-Bürki (* 22. December 1969 in Basel as Gianna Bürki ) is a Swiss fencer and politician ( SVP ).

biography

Gianna Bürki started fencing in Basel at the age of 14. At the age of 17, she was already a member of the national junior team and qualified for the 1986 World Championships. In 1988 she moved to the fencing club in Bern and was trained by the club trainer Henryk Nielaba. In 1989 Gianna Bürki qualified for the active world championships. After her first successes at the fencing world championships in 1989 (bronze medal with the team) and in the World Cup (first tournament victory in 1991 in Zurich), her career was marked by rifts. In 1996, after a scandal, she had to leave the Fechtgesellschaft Basel and was banned from fencing . As a lone fighter with a private coach, Hablützel-Bürki continued her international career. In an interview in 2018, she said that she found the behavior of certain teammates unprofessional and that she had been stamped as a “bad boy”.

From April 1993 to March 1994 she was number 1 in the world rankings. Gianna Bürki was the only European female epee fencer to win medals four times in a row (2 × silver, 2 × bronze) at the European Championships in individual competitions in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. With Gianna Bürki as team leader, the Swiss women's team qualified for the first time in 1996 for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The epee fencer celebrated her greatest success at the age of 31 when she won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games both individually and with the team. She then came second in the Swiss Sportswoman of the Year election .

Between 2004 and 2007 Gianna Hablützel-Bürki had a falling out with the Swiss Fencing Association, which accused her of unsportsmanlike conduct. During this time she was not allowed to compete with the national team. After being reconciled with the association in January 2007, she sought to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games , but missed it. In the following years she still took part in various World Cup tournaments, but no longer celebrated any major successes. In February 2012 she ended her career after 27 years with the 81st place at the World Cup tournament in Budapest.

From 2003 to 2011 Hablützel-Bürki was President of the Swiss Olympic Athletes Commission (SOAC). After resigning as an active top athlete, she continued to work as president and junior trainer of the fencing club she initiated in 2003 in Basel- & Riehen-Scorpions. Gianna Hablützel-Bürki is currently representing Switzerland in the Masters (40+) category. In 2011 she won the European Masters Games in Lignano Sabbiadoro. In 2013 she became Vice European Champion in Terni and in 2017 European Champion in Chiavari. Since 2018 she has also worked as an international referee.

In 2016 she successfully ran for SVP as a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt , of which she has been a member since February 2017. According to a Smartvote analysis, she is considered the most right-wing conservative council member. In 2019 she was nominated by her party for the elections to the Council of States in the canton of Basel-Stadt. She lost her candidacy against Eva Herzog .

Now separated, she has been married to Christoph Hablützel since 1997. She is the mother of a daughter.

Sporting successes

singles

• 9 times Swiss champion, last time in 2004
• 4 times World Cup winner
• Silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
• 11th place at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta
• Bronze medalist at the 2001 World Championships in Nîmes
• 2-time silver medalist at European Championships ( 1993 and 1996 )
• 2-time bronze medalist at European Championships ( 1994 and 1995 )

team

• 6 times Swiss champion, last time in 2003
• Silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
• Silver medalist at the 2001 World Championships in Nîmes
• Bronze medalist at the 1989 World Championships in Denver
• 4th place at the 1999 World Championships in Seoul
• European champion in Madeira in 2000
• 1995 French champion with Racing Club de France , Paris

Honors

• 2. The election for Swiss athlete of the year 2000
• Crew Captain of the year 2000
• nominated for the election of Sportswoman of the Year 2001 and Team Captain of the Year 2001
• multiple Basel Sportswoman of the Year , most recently in 2000 and 2001

Web links

• Gianna Hablützel-Bürki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official homepage of Gianna Hablützel-Bürki
• History fencing world championships (ladies' sword) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (women's sword) from sport-komplett.de
• Gianna Hablützel-Bürki on the website of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} One against all , nzz.ch, March 4, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2018.
2. ^ SVP Grand Councilor Gianna Hablützel-Bürki: “I am not xenophobic” , basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch, September 9, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018.
3. ↑ Sydney 2000: Gianna Hablützel-Bürki wins silver medal , swissinfo.ch, September 17, 2000, accessed on August 26, 2018.
4. ↑ Hablützel-Bürki can run again , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , January 11, 2007.
5. ↑ Fencing: Gianna Hablützel-Bürki retires , blick.ch, February 23, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2018.
6. ↑ Gianna Hablützel-Bürki, international FIE referee, swiss-fencing.ch, March 8, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2018.
7. ↑ SVP Basel-Stadt launches fencer Gianna Hablützel-Bürki and piano bar operator Andreas Bernauer , bzbasel.ch, June 28, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2018.
8. ↑ As right-wing conservative as Gianna Hablützel-Bürki is nobody else in the Grand Council , tageswoche.ch, October 24, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2018.
9. ^ Elections to the Council of States - Basel SVP nominates Gianna Hablützel-Bürki. May 10, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Basel Council of States election: Eva Herzog (SP) dominated them all. Retrieved on April 13, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).