Nicolas Limbach
At the French Team Fencing Championships 2013 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Competitor for Germany | ||
Men's Fencing | ||
World Championships | ||
Gold | Antalya 2009 | Men's sabre |
Silver | Paris 2010 | Men's sabre |
Silver | Catania 2011 | Men's sabre |
Bronze | St. Petersburg 2007 | Men's sabre |
European Championships | ||
Silver | 2010 Leipzig | Men's sabre |
Bronze | 2012 Legnano | Team sabre |
Nicolas Limbach (born 29 December 1985 in Eupen, Belgium) is a German fencer.
Biography
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he defeated Marcin Koniusz of Poland in the table of 32, 15 - 7. In the table of 16, he lost to Aliaksandr Buikevich of Belarus 14 - 15.
At the 2007 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal. He defeated Rares Dumitrescu of Romania to win the 2009 world champion in Men's Sabre. He also won a silver medal at the 2010 and 2011 World Fencing Championships.
He won the World Cup 2009 and 2010. The TSV Bayer Dormagen athlete is only the second German to have ever won a gold medal with the sabre after Felix Becker in 1994.[1]
In the 2012 London Olympics he reached the quarter finals in men's individual sabre. He was also on the German Men's Sabre team which finished fifth.