Sabine Bischoff

Sabine Bischoff-Wolf (* May 21, 1958 as Sabine Bischoff in Koblenz ; † March 6, 2013 in Weikersheim ) was a German foil fencer from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German champion and 1984 Olympic champion with the team.

Life

Sabine Bischoff has been a member of the Tauberbischofsheim Fecht Club since 1963 and first trained with Horst Held and from 1976 with Emil Beck . In 1977 Bischoff graduated from the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Tauberbischofsheim before studying to become a high school teacher. After her fencing career, Sabine Bischoff was a high school teacher in Weikersheim. She died after a long and serious illness at the age of 54.

successes

Bischoff won her first international medal at the World Fencing Championships in 1979 in bronze, followed by silver in 1981 , bronze in 1982 and silver in 1983 . In 1983 and 1984 she was German champion with the foil. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , she finished seventh in the individual ranking. In the team decision, the semi-final against Italy in particular was a close decision; in the event of a tie after battles, the German team reached the final because of the one hit higher total number of hits; With three battle wins, Sabine Bischoff played a decisive role in reaching the finals. In the final against the Romanians she won only one of three battles, but the German victory was still clear. Together with Zita Funkenhauser , Cornelia Hanisch , Christiane Weber and Ute Wessel , she won the first ever gold medal in the team competition for German female fencers.

After the fencer from FC Tauberbischofsheim had successfully completed her teaching degree, she had her most successful season ever in 1985. At the fencing world championship in Barcelona she was only defeated in the individual final against Cornelia Hanisch. Hanisch and Bischoff won the team competition together with Susanne Lang , Anja Fichtel and Zita Funkenhauser. In 1986 she won another World Cup bronze with the team.

Web links

Sabine Bischoff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
History of the German fencing championships from sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

^ Obituary in Fränkische Nachrichten of March 11, 2013
↑ Sabine Bischoff in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
↑ ^a ^b DFB mourns Sabine Bischoff. Deutscher Fechter Bund eV, March 7, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
^ MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b A great example. Südwest Presse Online, March 9, 2013, archived from the original on June 7, 2014 ; accessed on March 16, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bischoff, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolf, Sabine (maiden name); Bischoff-Wolf, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German foil fencer and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 2013
Place of death	Weikersheim

[1] Obituary in Fränkische Nachrichten of March 11, 2013

[2] Sabine Bischoff in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

[DFB-3] DFB mourns Sabine Bischoff. Deutscher Fechter Bund eV, March 7, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2015 .

[4] MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 .

[SWP-5] A great example. Südwest Presse Online, March 9, 2013, archived from the original on June 7, 2014 ; accessed on March 16, 2013 .