Charlotte Lembach
Personal information
Nickname(s)Chacha
Born (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988
Strasbourg, France
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
CountryFrance
SportFencing
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
National coachJean-Philippe Daurelle
ClubStrasbourg Université Club
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoTeam
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 WuxiTeam
Silver medal – second place2014 KazanTeam
Silver medal – second place2019 BudapestTeam
Bronze medal – third place2017 LeipzigTeam
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2014 StrasbourgTeam
Silver medal – second place2015 MontreuxIndividual
Silver medal – second place2015 MontreuxTeam
Silver medal – second place2016 ToruńTeam
Bronze medal – third place2016 ToruńIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2017 TbilisiTeam
Bronze medal – third place2018 Novi SadTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 DüsseldorfTeam

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 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Sabre 2nd[7]

World Championship

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

European Championship

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

Grand Prix

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

World Cup

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

References

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  3. "Charlotte Lembach, l'ennemie publique N.1 des Orléanaises". La République du Centre (in French). 1 June 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 Olivier Paquereau (13 July 2014). "Lembach a "les cartes en main"". L'Équipe (in French).
  5. Patrick Issert (18 July 2014). "Lembach tombe, reste Berder". L'Équipe (in French).
  6. Patrick Issert (21 July 2014). "Les Françaises en argent". L'Équipe (in French).
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