Peter Joppich (born 21 December 1982
) is a German
foil
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fencer.
Biography
Joppich is a five-time
World Champion
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
in Foil with four Individual titles and one Team title. He won the gold medal in 2010 World Fencing Championships after beating
Lei Sheng 15–11 at Championnats du Monde, Paris. He was also the winner of the World Fencing Championships in St Petersburg in 2007 after beating
Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini (born 19 December 1985) is an Italian foil fencer, several time European and World champion and team Olympic champion in 2012. He is the only foil fencer in history to have obtained four golds (European and World - individual and ...
15–9, Turin in 2006 after beating Baldini 15–14, and Havana in 2003. He won his first World Championship Individual Title when he was just 21 years old.
Joppich credits his success to former German fencer and Olympic gold medallist
Ulrich Schreck
Ulrich Schreck (born 11 March 1962) is a German fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1988 Summer Olympics and a gold in the same event at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de ...
. For more than 10 years, Schreck instructed Joppich during the latter's training at the Federal Training Centre in Bonn. He has competed in five Olympic Games – Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, and Tokyo 2021.
He finished sixth, fifth, eleventh, and twelfth respectively.
References
External links
FIE Record of Peter JoppichPeter Joppich wins 4th World ChampionshipOfficial FIE RecordsPeter Joppich's Interview by MHSchnelle Klinge, heller Kopf
Markus Wessel / WDR.de
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1982 births
Living people
German male fencers
German foil fencers
Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers of Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate