Charlotte Lembach

Charlotte Lembach
Personal information
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)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Jean-Philippe Daurelle
Club	Strasbourg Université Club
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2018 Wuxi Team 2014 Kazan Team 2019 Budapest Team 2017 Leipzig Team European Championships 2014 Strasbourg Team 2015 Montreux Individual 2015 Montreux Team 2016 Toruń Team 2016 Toruń Individual 2017 Tbilisi Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 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]

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 manage to 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 on 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

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[7]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[8]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[9]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Sabre	1st[10]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[11]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[12]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[13]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[14]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[15]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[16]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[17]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[18]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[19]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/25/2013	Tianjin, China	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[20]
05/24/2014	Beijing, China	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[21]
06/02/2017	Moscow, Russia	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[22]
01/10/2020	Montreal, Canada	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[23]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
02/07/2014	Dakar, Senegal	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[24]
05/02/2014	Chicago, Illinois	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[25]
11/01/2014	Margarita Island, Venezuela	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[26]
02/17/2017	Athens, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[27]
01/26/2018	Baltimore, Maryland	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[28]
05/10/2019	Tunis, Tunisia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[29]

References

External links

• Charlotte Lembach at the International Fencing Federation
• Charlotte Lembach at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
• Charlotte Lembach at Olympedia
• Charlotte Lembach at Olympics.com
• Charlotte Lembach at Équipe de France (in French)
• Charlotte Lembach at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)