{{Short description|Swiss épée fencer (born 1979)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = lightblue | name = Michael Kauter | image = Michael Kauter Challenge SNCF Reseau 2016 quals t125340.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = {{SUI}} | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|2|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bern, Switzerland | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|m=1.88|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|82|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} | website = | country = | sport = Fencing | event = Épée | collegeteam = | club = Fechtclub Bern<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael Kauter|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=58878/bio/index.html|work=Beijing 2008|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=18 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820195619/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=58878/bio/index.html|archive-date=20 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = yes }}
'''Michael Kauter''' (born February 18, 1979, in Bern) is a Swiss épée fencer.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Michael Kauter|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/michael-kauter-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095114/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/michael-kauter-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 19 January 2013}}</ref> He won a bronze medal in the weapon at the 2008 European Fencing Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine.<ref>{{cite news|title=Swiss takes bronze at fencing championship|url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sport/Swiss_takes_bronze_at_fencing_championship.html?cid=6782648|publisher=Swiss Info Corporation|date=7 July 2008|accessdate=19 January 2013}}</ref> He is the son of Christian Kauter, a medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in épée, and the brother of Fabian Kauter, an Olympic fencer in the same weapon.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Christian Kauter|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/christian-kauter-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230450/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/christian-kauter-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 18 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Fabian Kauter|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/fabian-kauter-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418094857/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/fabian-kauter-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 18 January 2013}}</ref>
Kauter represented Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's individual épée event. He defeated Ukraine's Bohdan Nikishyn in the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing his next match to Netherlands' Bas Verwijlen, with a score of 13–15.<ref>{{cite web|title=Men's Individual Épée – Round of 16|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc=FEM002400/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=19 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820214505/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc=FEM002400/index.html|archive-date=20 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *{{official website|http://www.kauter-brothers.ch/}} *[http://www.fie.ch/competitions/FencerDetail.aspx?param=973E6E0001D79CAF562D1771D8857808 Profile] – FIE *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120820195619/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=58878/bio/index.html NBC 2008 Olympics profile]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kauter, Michael}} Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Olympic fencers for Switzerland Category:Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:Sportspeople from Bern Category:Swiss male épée fencers Category:20th-century Swiss sportsmen Category:21st-century Swiss sportsmen