Ingrid Losert

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Ingrid Losert (born December 30, 1958 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German foil fencer , German champion and two-time vice world champion in foil fencing. She fought in the Freiburg Gymnastics Association from 1844, in which her father Josef was fencing master.

Life and Achievements

Losert comes from a fencing family, her father, who came from Austria, was a team vice world champion, multiple Austrian national champion and, after joining Austria, was German champion in foil fencing in 1943 . Later he was a university fencing teacher in Freiburg. Her uncle Rudolf and her brother Roland Losert , epee world champion in 1963 , were also successful fencers.

Losert started fencing at the age of seven, in 1975 she was third at the Junior World Championships in Mexico, and in 1976 she was Austrian national champion. In 1981 she finally won the German Championships , a year later she was third again. At the international level, Losert won several world championship medals with the German national foil team. At the fencing world championships in 1981 and 1983 she was vice world champion, 1979 and 1982 third. In addition to Losert, the teams always consisted of Cornelia Hanisch and Sabine Bischoff , as well as Ute Wessel (1979, 1981, 1983), Jutta Höhne (1979) and Christiane Weber (1982, 1983).

In 1978 Losert began studying English, French and Spanish.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ingrid Losert in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Tables in: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. Page 218ff.
  3. ↑ Fencing World Championships (Foil - Women). sport-komplett.de, accessed on May 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Losert, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau