Daryl Homer

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Daryl Homer
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Personal information
Born (1990-07-16) July 16, 1990 (age 34)
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
NationalityAmerican
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
FIE  ranking current ranking
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Moscow Individual
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Reno Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Reno Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Cancún Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Cartagena Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 San José Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Cartagena Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 San José Individual

Daryl Homer (born July 16, 1990) is an American right-handed saber fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist. [1]

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Homer competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. [2]

Homer is an eight-time team Pan American champion and three-time individual Pan American champion.

Personal life

Homer was born on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Juliette Smith and Daryl Homer. [3] At the age of five, Homer moved to New York City with his mother and younger sister D’Meca, to an apartment on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx. Homer attended Public School 21 there before going to Salesian High School [4] in New Rochelle. He eventually graduated from St. John’s University, with a degree in advertising communications. He now works for advertising and marketing agency Anomaly. [3]

Homer speaks to inner city youth about balancing his career with his athletic passions. He is a brand ambassador at Fencing in the Schools, a non-profit that aims to enrich the lives of students in the inner city through fencing. The program focuses on the health benefits, life skills, and exposure fencing can provide students in impoverished neighborhoods.[ citation needed ]

Fencing career

Homer started fencing at the age of 11, after happening on a picture of a masked fencer in the dictionary, and finding it "very cool". [5] He joined the Peter Westbrook Foundation in New York City, a program dedicated to exposing inner city youth to fencing started by six-time Olympian and 1984 Olympic bronze medalist Peter Westbrook. [3] Homer chose saber because Westbrook himself had been a sabreur. [5]

Homer was quickly identified as a talented athlete, and began working with four-time Olympic coach Yury Gelman immediately. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Cadet World Fencing Championships, and another bronze at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Belfast. That same year he competed in his first senior World Championships in Antalya, finishing 23rd, and took the NCAA title as a sophomore.

In the 2009–10 season Homer defended successfully his NCAA title. At the 2010 World Championships in Paris he defeated successively France's Boladé Apithy and Nicolas Lopez to reach the round of 16, and finished 12th. The next season, he won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Championships.

He redshirted the following season to train for the 2012 Summer Olympics, for which he qualified as a member of the top-ranked team of the Americas zone. In the individual event he defeated 15–9 Romania's Tiberiu Dolniceanu in the first round, then had a narrow 15–14 victory of world No. 2, Russia's Aleksey Yakimenko. He lost 15–14 in the quarter-finals to another Romanian, Rareș Dumitrescu, and finished sixth. [6] In the team event, the USA lost to Russia in the quarter-finals and finished eighth. [6] He finished the 2011–12 season no. 12 in FIE rankings.

Homer (R) scores from a flunge at the 2015 World Fencing Championships Dolniceanu v Homer 2015 WCh SMS-IN t193059.jpg
Homer (R) scores from a flunge at the 2015 World Fencing Championships

Homer maintained this ranking in the next season thanks to three quarter-final placings in the World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2013 Pan American Championships. He placed 11th at the end of the 2013–14 season. In the 2014–15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in the Seoul Grand Prix. [7]

As of July 1, 2016, he was ranked #2 in the United States, behind Team USA teammate Eli Dershwitz. [8]

He competed for the United States in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [9] He won the silver medal. [10] He became the first U.S. medalist in men's saber since Peter Westbrook won a bronze medal in 1984 and the first U.S. men's silver medalist since William Grebe in 1904. The U.S. has never won gold in men's saber. [11] Shortly after his Olympic silver medal, he left long-time coach Yury Gelman and the Manhattan Fencing Center for another coach.

He qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.

Medal record

Olympic Games

YearLocationEventPosition
2016 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Individual Men's Sabre2nd [12]

World Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2015 Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre2nd [13]

Pan American Championship

DateLocationEventPosition
2010 Flag of Costa Rica.svg San José, Costa Rica Team Men's Sabre1st [14]
2011 Flag of the United States.svg Reno, Nevada Individual Men's Sabre1st [15]
2011 Flag of the United States.svg Reno, Nevada Team Men's Sabre1st [16]
2012 Flag of Mexico.svg Cancún, Mexico Team Men's Sabre1st [17]
2013 Flag of Colombia.svg Cartagena, Colombia Individual Men's Sabre3rd [18]
2014 Flag of Costa Rica.svg San José, Costa Rica Individual Men's Sabre3rd [19]
2015 Flag of Chile.svg Santiago, Chile Individual Men's Sabre2nd [20]
2016 Flag of Panama.svg Panama City, Panama Team Men's Sabre1st [21]
2017 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Montreal, Canada Individual Men's Sabre1st [22]
2017 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Montreal, Canada Team Men's Sabre1st [23]
2018 Flag of Cuba.svg Havana, Cuba Individual Men's Sabre3rd [24]
2018 Flag of Cuba.svg Havana, Cuba Team Men's Sabre1st [25]
2019 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Toronto, Canada Individual Men's Sabre2nd [26]
2019 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Toronto, Canada Team Men's Sabre1st [27]
2022 Flag of Paraguay.svg Asunción, Paraguay Individual Men's Sabre1st [28]
2022 Flag of Paraguay.svg Asunción, Paraguay Team Men's Sabre1st [29]

Grand Prix

DateLocationEventPosition
2015-03-28 Flag of South Korea.svg Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre3rd [30]

World Cup

DateLocationEventPosition
2016-11-04 Flag of Senegal.svg Dakar, Senegal Individual Men's Sabre3rd [31]
2018-05-18 Flag of Spain.svg Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre3rd [32]

See also

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