Heidi Schmid

Heidi Schmid

Schmid at the 1960 Olympics

Personal information

Born

5 December 1938 (age 85)
Klagenfurt, Nazi Germany (present-day Austria)

Height

1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

63 kg (139 lb)

Sport

Fencing

Club

TSV Schwaben Augsburg

Medal record

Representing Germany

Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	Foil individual
	1964 Tokyo	Foil team
World Fencing Championships
	1957 Paris	Team foil
	1957 Paris	Individual foil
	1958 Philadelphia	Team foil
	1959 Budapest	Team foil
	1961 Turin	Foil individual
Summer Universiade
	1961 Sofia	Individual foil

Adelheid "Heidi" Schmid (German pronunciation: [̯ˈhaɪdiː ˈʃmɪt] ^ⓘ; after marriage Grundmann-Schmid, born 5 December 1938) is a retired German fencer who competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team foil events. She won an individual gold in 1960 and a team bronze medal in 1964.^[1]

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Career

Schmid took fencing when she was 13 years old. One year later, 14 years old, she finished third in the German youth championships. She became female German champion in foil fencing in 1957, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968.

On 1 September 1960 Heidi Schmid won the Olympic gold medal in Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome, after defeating Maria Vicol from Romania with a 4:3 score. Four years later, she was part of the German team (Gudrun Theuerkauff, Heidi Schmid, Rosemarie Scherberger and Helga Mees) that received a bronze medal in the team competition. The team qualified from pool C, defeated France in the quarterfinal, lost to the Hungarian team in the semifinal, and defeated Italy in the bronze final.^[1]

In 1961 Schmid became the world champion and also student world champion in foil, and was selected German sportswoman of the year. In addition, she won an individual silver medal at the 1957 world championships, and two team silver medals.