Thorsten Weidner

Thorsten Weidner medal table
fencing
Germany
Olympic games
	1988 Seoul	Foil team
	1992 Barcelona	Foil team
World championships
silver	1985 Barcelona	Foil team
silver	1986 Sofia	Foil team
gold	1987 Lausanne	Foil team
silver	1989 Denver	Foil team
silver	1991 Budapest	foil
silver	1991 Budapest	Foil team
gold	1993 Essen	Foil team
bronze	1994 Athens	foil
silver	1994 Athens	Foil team
German championships
gold	1984	Foil team
gold	1985	Foil team
silver	1986	foil
gold	1986	Foil team
gold	1987	Foil team
gold	1988	Foil team
gold	1989	foil
silver	1989	Foil team
silver	1990	Foil team
gold	1991	Foil team
gold	1992	Foil team
gold	1993	Foil team
silver	1994	foil
gold	1994	Foil team

Thorsten Weidner (born December 29, 1967 in Lauda ) is a former German fencer who competed for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club . In 1989 he was German single champion with the foil . At the 1992 Olympics , he won gold with the team.

Life

Thorsten Weidner started for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club and attended the Tauberbischofsheim commercial school . After he had won silver with the team after defeats in the final against the Italians at the 1985 World Fencing Championships and 1986 at the World Fencing Championships , the team became world champions against France in 1987 with Mathias Gey , Matthias Behr , Klaus Reichert , Ulrich Schreck and Thorsten Weidner. With Thomas Endres instead of Klaus Reichert, the team won silver at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, when the team from the Soviet Union lost in the final.

It was followed by team silver at the 1989 World Fencing Championships against the Soviet Union. At the World Fencing Championships in 1990 Thorsten Weidner was fourth in both the individual and team rankings. A year later, the German team lost in the final against the Cubans. In the individual final Thorsten Weidner lost to his teammate Ingo Weißenborn .

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Thorsten Weidner won gold with the team, together with Alexander Koch and Ulrich Schreck from Bonn, and Udo Wagner and Ingo Weißenborn from Tauberbischofsheim . For this he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

At the fencing world championship in 1993 , the team with Uwe Römer instead of Ulrich Schreck won the world championship. A year later, Weidner won bronze in the individual ranking. In the World Cup final with the team, the German team lost to the Italians.

Awards

• Bearer of the silver bay leaf

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany : Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team , Frankfurt 1992

Web links

• Thorsten Weidner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the German fencing championships from sport-komplett.de
• History of the World Fencing Championships (men's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (men's foil) from sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75 years of the Tauberbischofsheim Commercial School , StieberDruck GmbH, 113 pages, TBB 1997, p. 49.
2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V. VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: .... On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker ... awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with silver Bay leaf from ...