Imke Duplitzer

Imke Duplitzer (born 28 July 1975 in Karlsruhe) is a German épée fencer. Imke is a four time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012) where she placed 10th, 5th, 5th, and 29th respectively (in the individual competition). She also fenced in three team events at the Olympics, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the team épée competition with Britta Heidemann and Claudia Bokel.^[1][2] During the 2006 World Fencing Championships, she won the bronze medal after beating Romania in the épée team event together with her teammates Claudia Bokel, Britta Heidemann and Marijana Markovic. She is also a two-time European Champion in the individual event (1999 & 2010) as well as being a part of the gold medal-winning team in 1998.

Imke Duplitzer
Duplitzer in 2011
Personal information
Born	(1975-07-28) 28 July 1975 (age 50) Karlsruhe, West Germany
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Website	imke-duplitzer.de
Sport
Weapon	Épée
Hand	right-handed
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's épée fencing Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team épée World Championships 1993 Essen Team épée 1997 Cape Town Team épée 2002 Lisbon Individual épée 2003 Havana Team épée 2010 Paris Team épée 1999 Seoul Team épée 2005 Leipzig Team épée 2006 Torino Team épée 2007 St Petersburg Team épée 2008 Beijing Team épée 2009 Antalya Team épée European Championship 1998 Plovdiv Team épée 1999 Bolzano Individual épée 2010 Leipzig Individual épée 2006 İzmir Team épée

Duplitzer is openly lesbian.^[3][4]