Sabine Bau

Sabine Christiane Bau (born July 19, 1969 in Würzburg ) is a former German foil fencer and Olympic champion .

Life

Sabine Bau completed her Abitur in 1988 at the Matthias Grünewald High School in Tauberbischofsheim . The doctor with a doctorate also won five medals at the Olympic Games in addition to world and European runner-up titles. On November 8, 2003, she said goodbye to active competitive sport in a gala for the German Sports Aid. She supports various social institutions, for example the children's project “Auryn” for mentally ill children. She is a specialist in orthopedics with an additional qualification in sports medicine.

She belonged to a group of female fencers from Tauberbischofsheim who dominated German and international fencing for over a decade.

For winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993.

Sporting successes

• 2001 - Vice World Champion singles, Nîmes
• 2001 - EM bronze medal singles, Koblenz
• 2000 - Silver Medal World Cup, Budapest
• 2000 - bronze medal team Olympic Games Sydney
• 1999 - World Champion Team, Seoul
• 1999 - Vice World Champion Singles, Seoul
• 1999 - Silver Medal World Cup, Turin
• 1999 - Silver Medal World Cup, Paris
• 1999 - Gold Medal World Cup, Havana
• 1998 - World Champion, La Chaux-de-Fonds
• 1998 - Vice European Champion Team, Plovdiv
• 1998 - Vice European Champion Singles, Plovdiv
• 1998 - Bronze Medal Individual World Cup, Rochester
• 1998 - Gold Medal Team World Cup, Rochester
• 1998 - Bronze Medal World Cup, Bucharest
• 1998 - Bronze Medal World Cup, Buenos Aires
• 1998 - German vice championship singles, Mosbach
• 1998 - Bronze Medal World Cup, Budapest
• 1998 - German team champion, Mosbach
• 1997 - Gold Medal World Cup, Athens
• 1997 - World Championship bronze medal team, Cape Town
• 1997 - Vice World Champion Singles, Cape Town
• 1997 - Bronze Medal World Cup, Buenos Aires
• 1997 - DM bronze medal individual, Tauberbischofsheim
• 1997 - German team champion, Tauberbischofsheim
• 1996 - Bronze Medal Team Olympic Games Atlanta
• 1995 - Student World Champion Team, Fukuoka
• 1995 - World Championship bronze medal team, The Hague
• 1994 - European Champion, Krakow
• 1993 - team world champion, Essen
• 1992 - Silver medal team, Barcelona Olympic Games
• 1991 - World Championship bronze medal team, Budapest
• 1991 - World Championships bronze medal singles, Budapest
• 1989 - Team World Champion, Denver
• 1988 - Gold Medal Team Olympic Games Seoul
• 1988 - Silver Medal Singles Olympic Games Seoul
• 1986 - Vice World Champion singles, Sofia
• 1986 - World Championship bronze medal team, Sofia

Awards

• Bearer of the silver bay leaf

Web links

• Sabine Bau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• Literature by and about Sabine Bau in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.sabine-bau.de
• http://www.fechtentbb.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. (No longer available online.) MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: [...] on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker [...] honored disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games , with the silver bay leaf from [...]