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| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 2000 Santa Clara, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blake Broszus (born 22 November 2000) is a Canadian fencer. [1] He competed in the men's team foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
Broszus qualified for his second Olympics in 2024, when he was named to Canada's 2024 Olympic team. [3] [4]
Cliff Bayer is an American two-time Olympian foil fencer.
Richard Kruse is a former British right-handed foil fencer and four-time Olympian. In 2015, he was part of the Great Britain team that shocked Olympic champions Italy to win the first European Games gold in team foil, the first British gold medal in a team fencing event at World or European level for fifty years. He retired in 2021.
Lee Kiefer is an American right-handed foil fencer and three-time Olympic champion in women's foil, having won the individual event at the 2020 Summer olympics, and the individual and team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the most decorated women’s foil fencer in American history.
Maximilien Van Haaster is a male foil fencer from Canada. He won the bronze medal at the 2013 Pan American Fencing Championships in Cartagena, and later competed at the 2015 Pan American Games, in Toronto, Ontario.
Eleanor Grace Harvey is a Canadian foil fencer, 2022 individual Pan-American champion, and three-time Olympian.
Edgar Cheung Ka-long is a Hong Kong left-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympic champion and two-time individual Asian champion, having won the gold medal at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Mohamed Hamza is an Egyptian foil fencer who graduated from Princeton University. He competed for Egypt in both the men's team foil event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and men's foil individual and team events at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Canada competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for United States-led boycott.
Alanna Goldie is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
Kelleigh Ryan is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
The men's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. 36 fencers from 18 nations competed in this event.
The men's team foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 1 August 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. 27 fencers from 9 nations are expected to compete.
The women's team foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place on 29 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. 24 fencers from 8 nations are expected to compete.
Jessica Zi Jia Guo is a Canadian left-handed foil fencer.
Shaul Gordon is an Israeli-Canadian fencer in the sabre discipline. Gordon has represented the country on the international stage since 2013, and has competed at two Pan American Games and six World Fencing Championships. Gordon formerly resided in Richmond, British Columbia, but now lives and trains in Montreal, Quebec.
Jerome Blake is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the sprint events. As a member of the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team, he is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist and the 2022 World champion.
Nick Itkin is an American right-handed foil fencer. He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, two-time individual World Championship medalist, 2023 Team Pan American Games gold medalist, 2024 Individual Pan American Games gold medalist, and two-time individual NCAA champion. He earned foil silver at the 2023 World Fencing Championships to become the first U.S. man, and third U.S. fencer overall, to win individual medals at back-to-back World Championships. Itkin is currently competing in his second Olympic Games, representing the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, in both the individual and team events.
Canada is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for United States-led boycott.
The fencing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 4 August at the Grand Palais strip. A total of 212 fencers, with an equal distribution between men and women, will compete across twelve medal events at the Games. For the second straight time, Paris 2024 will witness both men and women fence against each other in the individual and team events held in all three weapons.
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