Charlotte Lembach

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Charlotte Lembach
Charlotte Lembach FFE press conference 2013-07-25.jpg
Personal information
Nickname(s)Chacha
Born (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988 (age 36)
Strasbourg, France
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
CountryFrance
Sport Fencing
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
National coach Jean-Philippe Daurelle
ClubStrasbourg Université Club
FIE  ranking current ranking
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Wuxi Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Kazan Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Budapest Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Leipzig Team
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Strasbourg Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Montreux Individual
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Montreux Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Toruń Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Toruń Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Tbilisi Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Novi Sad Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Düsseldorf Team

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. [1]

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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. [2] She was selected again for the 2012 European Championships in Kiev, 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. [3] 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”. [4] Under his coaching Lembach won a silver medal in the Dakar World Cup and climbed to the podium in Chicago and Beijing. [4] 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. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6]

Lembach is a student at EDHEC Business School.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

YearLocationEventPosition
2021 Flag of Japan.svg Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Sabre2nd [7]

World Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2014 Flag of Russia.svg Kazan, Russia Team Women's Sabre2nd [8]
2017 Flag of Germany.svg Leipzig, Germany Team Women's Sabre3rd [9]
2018 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wuxi, China Team Women's Sabre1st [10]
2019 Flag of Hungary.svg Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Sabre2nd [11]

European Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2014 Flag of France.svg Strasbourg, France Team Women's Sabre2nd [12]
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Montreux, Switzerland Individual Women's Sabre2nd [13]
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Montreux, Switzerland Team Women's Sabre2nd [14]
2016 Flag of Poland.svg Toruń, Poland Individual Women's Sabre3rd [15]
2016 Flag of Poland.svg Toruń, Poland Team Women's Sabre2nd [16]
2017 Flag of Georgia.svg Tbilisi, Georgia Team Women's Sabre3rd [17]
2018 Flag of Serbia.svg Novi Sad, Serbia Team Women's Sabre3rd [18]
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf, Germany Team Women's Sabre3rd [19]

Grand Prix

DateLocationEventPosition
05/25/2013 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tianjin, China Individual Women's Sabre3rd [20]
05/24/2014 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Beijing, China Individual Women's Sabre3rd [21]
06/02/2017 Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia Individual Women's Sabre1st [22]
01/10/2020 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Montreal, Canada Individual Women's Sabre3rd [23]

World Cup

DateLocationEventPosition
02/07/2014 Flag of Senegal.svg Dakar, Senegal Individual Women's Sabre2nd [24]
05/02/2014 Flag of the United States.svg Chicago, Illinois Individual Women's Sabre3rd [25]
11/01/2014 Flag of Venezuela.svg Margarita Island, Venezuela Individual Women's Sabre2nd [26]
02/17/2017 Flag of Greece.svg Athens, Greece Individual Women's Sabre3rd [27]
01/26/2018 Flag of the United States.svg Baltimore, Maryland Individual Women's Sabre3rd [28]
05/10/2019 Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunis, Tunisia Individual Women's Sabre3rd [29]

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