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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier OLY (born 15 December 2000) is a Singaporean, left-handed foil fencer. She attended the University of Notre Dame from 2018 to 2023, clinching 4 individual NCAA Fencing Championships medals. [1] Representing Singapore, Berthier has won 3 SEA Games gold medals and qualified for 2 Olympic Games.
On 16 December 2017, Berthier became the first Singaporean fencer to win a Junior World Cup title at the Havana leg in Cuba in the eight-leg series. [2] [3] [4]
In April 2021, she qualified for the Singapore Olympic team at the 2020 Summer Olympics, by winning the Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In doing so, she became the first Singaporean to secure an Olympic spot through a qualifying tournament. [5] Berthier was unfortunately knocked out in the round of 32 by eventual Olympic champion Lee Kiefer. [6]
In 2023, Berthier won a joint-bronze in the women’s foil at the 2023 Asian Fencing Championships held in Wuxi, China. She was then chosen alongside wushu athlete Jowen Lim as the flagbearers for the 2022 Asian Games (delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic) held in Hangzhou, China. [7] Berthier was again unlucky, being eliminated in the women’s individual foil quarter-finals. [8]
On 17 March 2024, Berthier qualified for the Paris Olympics via her individual ranking points. Ranked 28th in the world in the women’s foil, she claimed crucial points at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Grand Prix in Washington DC by finishing joint-20th. [9]
Berthier will be training with the Singapore national team's foil head coach, Oleg Matseichuk, for 3 months as part of her preparations for the Paris Olympics. [10] She will also compete in the Fencing World Cups in Georgia, Hong Kong and Shanghai, the Asian Fencing Championships in Kuwait, and travel to Japan and Poland for training camps. [11]
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