Nicolas Limbach

Nicolas Limbach, June 2013

Nicolas Limbach (born December 29, 1985 in Eupen , Belgium ) is a German saber fencer , world champion 2009, world champion 2014 and seven-time German champion .

life and career

His greatest successes so far are the world championship title at the Junior World Championships 2005 in Linz / Austria , third place at the 2007 World Championships and in Antalya 2009 the men's saber world championship, which he won after the final against the Romanian Rareș Dumitrescu . With the silver medal at the 2011 World Cup in Catania, Limbach won his fourth World Cup precious metal in a row after bronze in 2007 in St. Petersburg, gold in 2009 in Antalya and silver in 2010 in Paris. In 2014 he became world champion in Kazan with the German national team ahead of Korea. In the course of his career he won 16 World Cups and three times the overall World Cup. Nicolas Limbach is the only German saber world champion after Felix Becker , who won the world championship in 1994.

Nicolas Limbach fought for TSV Bayer Dormagen , his sister Anna also fights there. In addition to sport, Limbach has been studying International Business Administration since March 2006 , currently at Fresenius University .

Important sporting successes

Olympic games

• 2008 - 9th place Olympic Games Beijing
• 2012 - 5th place Olympic Games London
• 2012 - 5th place Olympic Games London (team)

International championships

• 2004 - European Junior Champion
• 2004 - European Champion Juniors (Team)
• 2005 - Junior World Champion
• 2005 - World Champion Juniors (Team)
• 2007 - 3rd place World Championship St. Petersburg
• 2008 - 3rd place European Championship Kiev
• 2009 - Overall World Cup winner
• 2009 - World Champion Antalya
• 2010 - 2nd place European Championship Leipzig
• 2010 - 3rd place European Championship Leipzig (team)
• 2010 - 2nd place World Championship Paris
• 2010 - Overall World Cup winner
• 2011 - 2nd place European Championship Sheffield (team)
• 2011 - 2nd place World Championship Catania
• 2012 - 3rd place European Championship Legnano (team)
• 2012 - Overall World Cup winner
• World ranking from June 2009 to February 2011
• 2014 - World Champion Kazan (team)

World Cup victories

• 2005 - Athens
• 2006 - Athens, Padua
• 2007 - Istanbul, Isla de Margarita
• 2008 - Athens, Tunis
• 2009 - Plovdiv
• 2010 - Plovdiv, Warsaw
• 2012 - Plovdiv, Padua, Budapest, Madrid
• 2013 - Budapest
• 2015 - Seoul

German championships

• 2004 - German junior champion
• 2006 - German champion
• 2007 - German champion
• 2008 - German team champion
• 2009 - German champion
• 2011 - German champion
• 2012 - German champion
• 2014 - German team champion

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Limbach  - Collection of Images

• Athlete biography - Nicolas Limbach on the website of the German Fencing Federation
• Nicolas Limbach - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Limbach Nicolas - Biography in the database of the European Fencing Confederation (English)
• Nicolas Limbach in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )