Sandra Sachse

Sandra axis (* 9. September 1969 in Eslohe (Sauerland) as Sandra Wagner ) is a German archer who won two Olympic medals.

The trained precision mechanic won her first international medal at the European Championships in 1994, when she, together with Barbara Mensing and Cornelia Pfohl, lost to the Russian team in the final. The following year she finished fourth with the German team at the World Championships. At the 1996 Olympic Games , the German team with Mensing, Pfohl and Wagner reached the final against the South Koreans and received the silver medal. In the absence of the South Koreans, the German team with Wiebke Nulle , Pfohl and Wagner won the 1997 World Indoor Championships ahead of Kazakhstan.

After marrying Peter Sachse, she started in 1998 under the name Sandra Sachse. Together with Pfohl and Mensing she won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in 1998, and at the European Open Air Championships in 1998 together with Britta Bühren and Cornelia Pfohl. In their second Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , Sachse and the German team met the South Koreans in the semi-finals and lost, in the battle for third place Mensing, Pfohl and Sachse won against the Turkish team and thus won a bronze medal.

For winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games, she received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Johannes Rau .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996, page 101
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2000, page 45

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of February 2, 2001:… Federal President Rau… has awarded the medal winners of the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games with the Silver Laurel Leaf.

Web links

• Sandra Wagner-Sachse in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships team competition