Anna Limbach
Anna Limbach | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Eupen, Belgium | 22 July 1989
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Sport | |
Weapon | sabre |
Hand | right-handed |
National coach | Eero Lehmann |
Club | TSV Bayer Dormagen |
FIE ranking | current ranking |
Anna Limbach (born 22 July 1989) is a German sabre fencer.
Career
Limbach was born in a fencing family: her father Alfred is a sports administrator and her elder brother Nicolas is twice sabre World champion. She joined in 2006 the German national team. She won with them a team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships in Prague. In the senior category, her best result is a quarter-final at the 2014 European Championships in Strasburg, where she was defeated by Italy's Rossella Gregorio. With the team, she reached a quarter-final at the 2009 World Championships in Antalya, where they lost to Russia. Limbach was four-time (2006, 2008, 2009, 2011) German team champion with TSV Bayer Dormagen.
Limbach graduated in marketing from St. John's University.