Matthias Gey

Mathias Gey (born 7 July 1960 Tauberbischofsheim ) is a former German fencer, who competed for the FC Tauberbischofsheim. In 1987 he was single world champion with the foil.

Career

1979 Mathias won his first World Cup medal Gey when he erfocht together with Matthias Behr, Harald Hein, Thomas Bach and Klaus Reichert bronze in the team competition. In the World Fencing Championships 1981 Behr, Hein, Gey and Frank Beck again won bronze. In Vienna at the World Fencing Championships 1983 Mathias Gey reached the final, where he lost to Alexander Romankow in the individual standings. In the team competition, the fencers won from the Federal Republic of Germany after 1977 their second world title, with Matthias Behr, Harald Hein and Klaus Reichert again stood in the winning team, while Frank Beck and Mathias Gey for the first time world champions were. Mathias Gey won from 1982 to 1984 three times in a row at the German Individual Championship, 1986 and 1990, he won two more titles. At the 1984 Olympic Games Gey eliminated in the quarter-final against the Italian Stefano Cerioni, finishing in sixth place. In the team competition, the German team reached the finals and met the Italians. Gey won here against Cerioni and against Andrea Borella, but lost to Mauro Numa and Angelo Scuri. The German team lost with 7:8 battles and was in the cast Hein, Behr, Reichert, Beck and Gey the silver medal.

In the World Fencing Championships 1986 Matthias Behr, and Mathias Gey won together with Ulrich fright and Thorsten Weidner silver behind the Italian team. A year later, Mathias Gey reached at the World Fencing Championships in Lausanne in 1987 the peak of his career: in the individual competition he won the final against Matthias Behr, in the team competition won Gey, Behr, fright, Weidner and Reichert against the French team. A year later, Gey met again at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in the quarterfinals on Stefan Cerioni and finished after his defeat by the Italians in eighth place. The German team with Gey, Behr, fright, Weidner and Thomas Endres defeated the Italians in the quarterfinals. After the West German team had beaten the East German fencer in the semifinals, met the German fencer in the finals on the Soviet team, where she pretty much lost with 9:5 battles. The following year, Gey reached at the World Fencing Championship in 1989 with Thomas Endres, Thorsten Weidner and Alexander Koch the finals, where the German fencer subject again against the Soviet team.

Mathias Gey, who had completed his architectural studies during his sporting career, now runs an architecture firm in Tauberbischofsheim.