Katja Wächter

Katja Wächter (born 28 January 1982 in Leipzig, Sachsen) is a German foil fencer.[2] In 2009, Wachter won a silver medal for the same weapon at the European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and bronze, as a member of the German fencing team, at the World Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[3][4]

Katja Wächter

Personal information
Nationality	Germany
Born	(1982-01-28) 28 January 1982 Leipzig, Sachsen, East Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	Foil
Club	Cercle d'escrime Melun Val de Seine
Coached by	Ingo Weissborn[1]
Medal record Women's fencing Representing  Germany World Championships 2009 Antalya Team foil European Championships 2009 Plovdiv Foil 2010 Leipzig Team foil 2011 Sheffield Team foil

Wachter represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two foil events. For her first event, the women's individual foil, Wachter defeated Peru's María Luisa Doig, Romania's Cristina Stahl, and France's Corinne Maîtrejean in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Italy's Giovanna Trillini, with a score of 8–15.[5] Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Melanie Wolgast, Anja Schache, and Carolin Golubytskyi for the women's team foil. Wachter and her team, however, lost the fifth place match to the Chinese team (led by Zhang Lei), with a total score of 28 touches.[6]