Ingo Weißenborn

Ingo Weißenborn (born November 29, 1963 in Bernburg an der Saale ) is a former German fencer .

Life

Weißenborn fought for the GDR and the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam until 1990 . In 1991 he moved to the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club .

successes

At the fencing world championships in 1983 he was a substitute for the GDR team, which lost in the foil final against the team of the Federal Republic in the final. At the fencing world championships in 1986 he won bronze with the GDR team.

After the reunification of Germany, the fencer, who is only 1.68 m tall, was foil world champion at the 1991 World Fencing Championships and won silver with the team. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Ingo Weissenborn won the team gold with the two Bonners Alexander Koch and Ulrich Schreck , as well as the Tauberbischofsheim Heimern Udo Wagner and Thorsten Weidner . For this he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

At the fencing world championships in 1993 , the team with Uwe Römer won the world championship instead of Ulrich Schreck.

Trainer

Weissenborn was national coach from 2004 to 2009.

Awards

• Bearer of the silver bay leaf

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team , Frankfurt 1992

Web links

• Ingo Weißenborn in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V. VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1992, with the Silver Laurel Leaf
2. ↑ Somodi and Golubytskyi new national fencing trainers