Anne-Elizabeth Stone

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Anne-Elizabeth Stone
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Stone at the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Full nameAnne-Elizabeth Leigh Stone
Born (1990-12-31) December 31, 1990 (age 33)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight165 lb (75 kg)
Sport
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
National coach Ed Korfanty
Club Princeton University
Head coach Oleg Stetsiv
FIE  ranking current ranking
Medal record
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Kazan Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Budapest Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Moscow Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Wuxi Individual
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Team
Pan American Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2013 CartagenaIndividual

Anne-Elizabeth Stone, commonly known as Eliza Stone, (born December 31, 1990) is an American sabre fencer. [1] Her results include an individual bronze medal at the 2018 World Fencing Championships and a team gold medal in the 2014 World Championships.

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Career

Stone grew up fencing with her younger brother and sister in Chicago. She first took ballet lessons. She switched to fencing at the age of ten after her father saw a flier for a fencing club at a pizza parlor and thought it would be a good sport for his children. [2] All three ended up fencing for Princeton University.

Stone joined the US national team in the 2012–13 season, during which she took the silver medal in the Pan American Championships after being defeated in the final by two-time Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis. In the 2013 World Championships at Budapest, she was stopped in the second round by Matylda Ostojska of Poland. In the team event, the United States defeated Belarus and Azerbaijan before being stopped in the semi-finals by Russia. They then topped Italy to earn the bronze medal.

The next season, Stone climbed her first World Cup podium in Dakar. [3] A second bronze followed in the Moscow Grand Prix. In the 2014 World Championships at Kazan, Stone was stopped in the third round by Poland's Aleksandra Socha. In the team event, the United States prevailed over Kazakhstan, China, then Ukraine and met France in the final. They won 45-39 to take the gold medal. [4]

At the 2018 World Fencing Championships in Wuxi, Stone finished with a bronze medal for her best individual result to date, falling in the semi-finals to eventual champion Sofia Pozdniakova. [5] In January 2019, she achieved the No. 1 individual ranking in the United States for Women's Saber. [6] In June 2019 she won her first gold medal at the Pan-American Games, and as a result achieved a career high ranking of 5th in the world. [7]

In 2013 Stone obtained a BA in political science from Princeton University.

She qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. She competed individually and in the team event alongside teammates Mariel Zagunis, Dagmara Wozniak, and Francesca Russo.

Stone commissioned as an officer in the US Navy Medical Corps in 2022 and is currently earning her medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

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References

  1. ↑ "Eliza Stone". Team USA. Archived from the original on May 8, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  2. ↑ Philip Hersh (May 3, 2013). "Saber-rattling fits the family Stone". The Chicago Tribune.
  3. ↑ US Fencing (ed.). "Eliza Stone wins first Individual medal at Dakar senior World Cup".
  4. ↑ Philip Hersh (July 21, 2014). "Chicago fencer Stone wins world team gold". The Chicago Tribune.
  5. ↑ "Eliza Stone wins first U.S. Women's Individual Sabre World Championship Medal since 2014".
  6. ↑ "Eliza Stone Earns 9th place finish in Salt Lake City".
  7. ↑ Henneman, Kristen (June 30, 2019). "Eliza Stone Clinches First Pan Am Title". USA Fencing. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
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