Zita Funkenhauser

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Zita Funkenhauser medal table

fencing

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 1984 Los Angeles Foil team
bronze 1988 Seoul foil
gold 1988 Seoul Foil team
Silver 1992 Barcelona Foil team
fencing World championships
gold SpainSpain 1985 Barcelona Foil team
bronze BulgariaBulgaria 1986 Sofia Foil team
silver SwitzerlandSwitzerland 1987 Lausanne foil
bronze United StatesUnited States 1989 Denver foil
gold United StatesUnited States 1989 Denver Foil team
bronze HungaryHungary 1991 Budapest Foil team
bronze GermanyGermany 1993 Essen foil
gold GermanyGermany 1993 Essen Foil team
bronze NetherlandsNetherlands 1995 The Hague Foil team
fencing German championships
gold 1984 Foil team
gold 1986 Foil team
gold 1987 Foil team
gold 1993 foil

Zita Eva Funkenhauser (born July 1, 1966 in Satu Mare , Socialist Republic of Romania ) is a former German foil fencer . She was multiple German champion , Olympic champion and world champion.

Life

Like the fencers Monika Weber , Rita and Susanne König, Zita Funkenhauser is of Sathmar Swabian descent. At the age of twelve she was already a Romanian master. In 1979 her parents moved with her and her sister Hedwig from Romania to Germany, and her father registered his daughters with FC Tauberbischofsheim , where Zita soon belonged to the fencers who dominated German and international fencing for a decade, including several Olympic ones Won medals.

In 1986 Funkenhauser graduated from the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Tauberbischofsheim . In addition to sport, Funkenhauser studied dentistry and received her doctorate in 1994. She is married to the fencer Matthias Behr , also Olympic and world champion, and has two children with him, Greta and Leandra Behr , who also fights. After finishing her sporting career, she now works as a dentist in Tauberbischofsheim.

successes

In 1984 she was junior athlete of the year and became an Olympic champion with the team. In 1987 she was third in the choice of "Sportswoman of the Year" . In the same year she won the silver medal at the fencing world championships in Lausanne. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won the bronze medal in individual after a final victory against Zsuzsanna Jánosi and defended the team title. At the World Championships in Denver the following year, she was also able to reach 3rd place. In 1992 she won silver with the team. In 1993 she was third in the world championship in Essen. In the same year she also won the German foil championship held in Tauberbischofsheim when she defeated Sabine Bau 5: 1, 5: 1 in the final. For her sporting success she received the silver bay leaf .

Single successes

Team successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Love is the most important thing". In: fnweb.de. July 30, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mgg-tbb.de
  3. ^ Zita Funkenhauser in the German National Library
  4. ^ "Results without national leagues", Sport-Bild from January 27, 1993, p. 43
  5. ↑ RP Online from September 15, 2016: .... The encounters with the gold fencers Anja Fichtel and Zita Funkenhauser ..... honored the winners of the games with the silver laurel leaf
personal data
SURNAME Funkenhauser, Zita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funkenhauser, Zita-Eva (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Satu Mare , Socialist Republic of Romania