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Nickname(s) | Chacha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988 (age 36) Strasbourg, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach | Jean-Philippe Daurelle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Strasbourg Université Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Charlotte Lembach (born 1 April 1988) is a French right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.
Lembach competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Career
Lembach was first called into the French national team for the 2009 European Championships in Plovdiv, but a hamstring injury prevented her from attending the competition. She was selected again for the 2012 European Championships in Kyiv, but did not earn a qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
After the Games, three members of the French team retired, leaving Lembach as team elder: at the age of 24 she acquired the nickname “Mamie” (“Granny”). The 2012–13 season saw her breakthrough: at Tianjin she climbed on the podium of a World Cup event, which no other French sportswomen had accomplished in two years and a half. She however failed to earn a medal in the 2013 European Championships and the 2013 World Championships.
In the 2013–14 season Jean-Philippe Daurelle replaced Cyril Tahon as coach of the French women's sabre team, which Lembach described as “a breath of fresh air”. Under his coaching Lembach won a silver medal in the Dakar World Cup and climbed to the podium in Chicago and Beijing. In the European Championships held in her native Strasbourg, Lembach defeated teammate Cécilia Berder, but failed in the second round against No.1 seed Vassiliki Vougiouka and finished 13th. In the team event, France defeated Germany, but were overcome in the semi-finals by reigning champions Russia. They prevailed over Poland to come away with a bronze medal. In the World Championships at Kazan, she fell in the second round again, this time at the hands of Małgorzata Kozaczuk of Poland. In the team event France defeated Hungary, then created an upset by beating Russia in the quarter-finals and Italy in the semi-finals. Their winning streak was snapped in the final by the United States led by twice-Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis and France came away with a silver medal.
Lembach is a student at EDHEC Business School.
Medal Record
Olympic Games
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2021 | Tokyo, Japan | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
World Championship
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2014 | Kazan, Russia | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
2017 | Leipzig, Germany | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd |
2018 | Wuxi, China | Team Women's Sabre | 1st |
2019 | Budapest, Hungary | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
European Championship
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2014 | Strasbourg, France | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
2015 | Montreux, Switzerland | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
2015 | Montreux, Switzerland | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
2016 | Toruń, Poland | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
2016 | Toruń, Poland | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd |
2017 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd |
2018 | Novi Sad, Serbia | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd |
2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd |
Grand Prix
Date | Location | Event | Position |
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05/25/2013 | Tianjin, China | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
05/24/2014 | Beijing, China | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
06/02/2017 | Moscow, Russia | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st |
01/10/2020 | Montreal, Canada | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
World Cup
Date | Location | Event | Position |
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02/07/2014 | Dakar, Senegal | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
05/02/2014 | Chicago, Illinois | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
11/01/2014 | Margarita Island, Venezuela | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
02/17/2017 | Athens, Greece | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
01/26/2018 | Baltimore, Maryland | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
05/10/2019 | Tunis, Tunisia | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
References
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "Lembach bisse sa première sélection". 20 Minutes (in French). 4 April 2012.
- "Charlotte Lembach, l'ennemie publique N.1 des Orléanaises". La République du Centre (in French). 1 June 2013.
- ^ Olivier Paquereau (13 July 2014). "Lembach a "les cartes en main"". L'Équipe (in French).
- Patrick Issert (18 July 2014). "Lembach tombe, reste Berder". L'Équipe (in French).
- Patrick Issert (21 July 2014). "Les Françaises en argent". L'Équipe (in French).
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
External links
- Charlotte Lembach at the International Fencing Federation
- Charlotte Lembach at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
- Charlotte Lembach at Olympedia (archive)
- Charlotte Lembach at Olympics.com
- Charlotte Lembach at Équipe de France (in French)
- Charlotte Lembach at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
- 1988 births
- Living people
- French female sabre fencers
- Sportspeople from Strasbourg
- Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for France
- People from Alsace
- Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games competitors for France
- Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- 21st-century French sportswomen