Ildikó Mincza-Nébald

Ildikó Mincza-Nébald (* as Ildikó Mincza ; November 6, 1969 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian fencer .

Ildikó Mincza-Nébald has been among the world's elite in her sport since the mid-1990s. In 1991 she was European team champion in Vienna . With the team she won the bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships in Athens . At that time, however, she still competed with the foil . In the mid-1990s she switched to the rapier and in 1997 she was European champion with this weapon in Danzig . Your most successful World Cup was in Seoul in 1999 . There she won bronze in the individual competition and gold with the Hungarian team.

In Sydney Mincza-Nébald took in 2000 in part for the second time in the Olympic Games after the 1,992th In 1992 she fought with the foil, in 2000 with the épée team, finishing fourth, she narrowly missed winning a medal. In 2001 the Hungarian won both individual European and team European championships in Koblenz and she won bronze with the team in Nîmes and gold for the second time in Lisbon in 2002 . In 2003 there was another bronze medal in the individual at the European Championships in Bourges and with the team at the world championships in Havana . In Athens, Mincza-Nébald started in 2004 for the third time at the Olympic Games. In the individual she was fourth, with the team fifth.

The individual competition of the 2007 World Cup in St. Petersburg went badly for Mincza-Nébald, she was only 30. Better she placed with the team in fifth. The pre-Olympic season was promising, winning two competitions in Florina and Saint-Maur in the 2007/2008 season. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , the Hungarian started with a victory over Chui Ling Yeung , then beat Sherraine Schalm and the favored Imke Duplitzer with 15-11. In the semifinals, however, the fencer lost to the later silver medalist Ana Maria Brânză with 14-15. Mincza-Nébald won the small final for bronze against Li Na from China with 15-11.

Mincza-Nébald is married to the Hungarian saber fencer and Olympic champion György Nébald .

Web links

• Ildikó Mincza-Nébald in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• History fencing world championships (ladies' sword) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (women's sword) from sport-komplett.de
• Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )