 Limbach at the 2013 team France national championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-12-29)29 December 1985 (age 40) Eupen, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb; 14.3 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fencing career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National coach | Vilmoș Szabo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TSV Bayer Dormagen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Vilmoș Szabo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicolas Limbach (born 29 December 1985) is a Germanfencer, world champion in 2009 and team world champion in 2014. He won theFencing World Cup in2008–2009,2009–2010 and2011–2012.
Limbach was born in a family closely involved in fencing: his father directs the fencing section of TSV Bayer Dormagen and his younger sisterAnna also fences for Germany. He took up the sport at the age of six.
In 2005, Limbach won a gold medal in the individual and the team events of the Junior World Championships in Linz. The same year, he climbed his first podium in theFencing World Cup with a victory in Athens and he joined the national senior team. At the2005 European Championships, he reached the quarter-finals. At the2007 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal after losing to Italy'sAldo Montano.
A bronze medal in the Plovdiv World Cup allowed him to qualify to the2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In theindividual event, he defeated 15–7Marcin Koniusz of Poland in the table of 32, then lost 14–15 toAliaksandr Buikevich of Belarus.
He defeatedRareș Dumitrescu of Romania to win the2009 World Championships in Antalya. 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 afterFelix Becker in 1994.[1]
At the2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals in men's individual sabre. He was also on the German Men's Sabre team which finished fifth. He won the 2015 Seoul Grand Prix.
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