Background
Limbach was born in a family closely involved in fencing: his father directs the fencing section of Turn- und Sportverein Bayer Dormagen and his younger sister Anna also fences for Germany.
Limbach was born in a family closely involved in fencing: his father directs the fencing section of Turn- und Sportverein Bayer Dormagen and his younger sister Anna also fences for Germany.
He took up the sport at the age of six. The same year he climbed his first podium in the Fencing World Cup with a victory in Athens and he joined the national senior team At the 2005 European Championships he reached the quarter-finals.
A bronze medal in the Plovdiv World Cup allowed him to qualify to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In the individual event he defeated 15–7 Marcin Koniusz of Poland in the table of 32, then lost 14–15 to Aliaksandr Buikevich of Belarus. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he reached the quarter finals in men"s individual sabre.
He was also on the German Men"s Sabre team which finished fifth.