Claudia Bokel
Claudia Bokel ( born August 30, 1973 in Ter Apel, Netherlands ) is a German epee fencer, world champion was in 2001.
Life and sports career
Bokel who owns next to its German and a Dutch passport, grew up in the Dutch Ter Apel, but went just like their older siblings in a kindergarten in Emsland Rütenbrock. It was 1992 Junior World Champion in Genoa for the first time. This title she defended in 1993 in Denver. With the team, she won in 1993 in Essen, 1997 in Cape Town and 2003 in Havana World Championship silver. In the 1999 World Fencing Championships in Seoul, 2005 in Leipzig, Torino 2006 and 2007 in St. Petersburg, she won bronze medalist with the team. In the individual it was founded in 2001 in Nîmes first German world champion. In 1998, she became German champion with the team, 2001, 2003 and 2007, she was German champion in singles, in 2005 German Champion in singles and with the team. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she got together with Imke Duplitzer and Britta Heidemann won the silver medal behind the team from Russia. In 2006 she was in Izmir European champion in the women 's epee individual. Bokel, which began at the OFC Bonn with the power fencing in 1989, was in October 2002, their transfer to FC Tauberbischofsheim known.
Bokel was and is active in various honorary offices. She was 2005-2009 President of the EOC Athletes' Commission (EOC: European Olympic Committee ); this, she was elected on May 22, 2005 in Kiev with 22 of 26 possible votes. Furthermore Bokel was the chemist is studied (2008, Radboud University Nijmegen), member of the Board of Trustees of NADA and is a personal member in DOSB. She is also godmother to the elite school ' fencing boarding Bonn '. In October 2006 Bokel was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of the assets of the DOSBs. On 21 August 2008 she was elected for the period of eight years as a member of the Athletes' Commission in the International Olympic Committee (IOC ).
Bokel is a member of DOSB Präsidums since 2006. From 2006 to 2007 as chairman of the DOSB Athletes' Commission, in 2008, she was a member of the IOC permanent guest. Since an amendment in December 2011 she has been an IOC member member of the Bureau.
Since the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she is Chair of the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee after they had acted as deputy chairman since 2010.
Claudia Bokel whose career began in February 2009 as a Senior Consultant at Bayer AG.
Awards
- 2001: fencer of the year in Germany
- 2004: Silver bay leaf