Charlotte Lembach will not participate in the Paris Olympic Games. The 36-year-old is expecting her first child in May 2023.
Lembach has won four European medals and four at the world championships. The Alsatian has allowed the French fencing team to regain saber colors over the last ten years. The saber will have competed in her last qualifying event in mid-March, knowing that she will not be able to participation in the Games. She won silver at the European Championships in 2015, then bronze the following year. In 2016, Lembach won a gold medal at the World Championships in Wuxi. She also won a silver medal in Tokyo three years ago and a bronze in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The French athlete is a member of the European fencing team. She is married to a fellow fencer and the couple have a daughter, who is due in 2023, and a son, who will be born in 2028. The couple are also hoping to have a second child in the future.