Marijana Marković

Marijana Marković ( born February 3, 1982 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German epee fencer.

Sports career

Marijana Marković, nicknamed " Maja", appeared in 1990 in the Offenbach Fencing Club of 1863. There she learned of the fencing masters Stefan Haukler and Miklos Bodoczi the art of Florettfechtens. The age of 13, she won the German championship their first major title in foil fencing. Your great talent was evident in their fechterischen versatility, as more German championship title followed with his sword. In 2002 she moved to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, but also trained in the power base of Bonn under the national coach Manfred Kaspar.

The final weapon-related technical specialization they occurred in 1999, when they both cadet world champion in the women's epee fencing and as well as third in the junior was in Keszthely. Since then, she has been a permanent member of the German women 's epee team, with whom she won numerous successes. These included, among others, in 2003 the World Championship in Havana, 2004 Olympic silver in Athens 2006 bronze medal at the World Championships in Turin, as well as in 2007 in Saint Petersburg and in Beijing in 2008 and 2009 in Antalya.

Career

After successfully graduating in 2001 at the Adolf Reich wine school in Heusenstamm, she first began studying Sports Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. With regard to the preparation of the Olympic Games in Athens, she was oriented and sporty new career. With a change of club she joined the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr.

After the Olympic Games in Athens, she started her engineering degree in food technology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, that she completed in 2010.

In 2011 she re-entered the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Mainz ( Rank Staff Sergeant ) in order to prepare optimally turn on the Olympic Games can.