Simone Briese-Baetke

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Simone Briese-Baetke medal table

fencing

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gold 2012 London Sword
fencing World championships
bronze 2010 Paris Sword
bronze 2010 Paris Foil team
bronze 2011 Sword
bronze 2013 foil
fencing European championships
gold 2009 Warsaw Sword
gold 2009 Warsaw Epee team
fencing German championships
bronze 2007 Oldenburg saber
gold 2009 Offenbach Sword
gold 2009 Offenbach foil
gold 2010 Minden Sword
gold 2010 Minden foil

Simone Briese-Baetke (born April 2, 1966 ) is a German wheelchair fencer specializing in epee, foil and saber.

Life

The paraplegic athlete, suffering from multiple sclerosis , started her athletic career at TUS Makkabi Rostock. She later switched to the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club . Briese-Baetke fights with epee, foil and saber and is multiple World Cup winner, European champion in 2009 with the epee, bronze medalist at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London .

For winning the silver medal, she received the silver bay leaf on November 7, 2012.

In 2013 at the World Championships in Budapest she only lost in the foil semifinals against the Paralympic winner of 2012 Yao Fang with 6:15 and received the bronze medal.

successes

  • World Cup 2013: bronze foil
  • Paralympics 2012: silver epee
  • World Cup 2011: gold foil, bronze epee
  • World Cup 2010: gold epee, silver foil
  • World Cup 2009: silver epee
  • World Cup 2008: gold, bronze epee
  • European Championship 2009: gold epee, gold epee team
  • German championship 2009: gold epee, gold foil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Simone Briese-Baetke honored. Deutscher Fechter-Bund, June 26, 2013, accessed on January 28, 2015 .
  2. Florian Silbernagl: Paralympics candidate: Simone Briese-Baetke - London, I'm coming! Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 13, 2012, accessed on August 10, 2013 .
  3. Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 7, 2012: ... On November 7, 2012, Federal President Joachim Gauck awarded the German medal winners of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games ... with the Silver Laurel Leaf.
  4. Ira Ziegler: Simone Briese-Baetke wins bronze medal. German Disabled Sports Association, August 8, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2013 .