Dimitri Coutya

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Dimitri Coutya
MBE
2024 Summer Paralympics men's wheelchair fencing, Poland v Great Britain - epee (11) (cropped2).jpg
Personal information
Born (1997-10-07) 7 October 1997 (age 27)
London, England [1]
Sport
Weapon Épée B / Foil B
National coachGlen Golding
Club University of Bath
Medal record
Men's wheelchair fencing
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Summer Paralympics
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Paris Épée B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Paris Foil B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 Paris Team foil
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2024 Paris Team épée
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team Foil
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2020 Tokyo Foil B
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2020 Tokyo Team épée
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2020 Tokyo Épée B
IWAS World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 TerniÉpée B
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2024 TerniFoil B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 CheongjuÉpée B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 CheongjuFoil B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 RomeÉpée B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 RomeFoil B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 EgerFoil B
IWAS European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 ParisÉpée B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 ParisFoil B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 ParisTeam foil B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 ParisSabre B
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2024 ParisTeam épée B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 WarsawFoil B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 WarsawÉpée B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 WarsawTeam Foil
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 WarsawTeam épée
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 TerniÉpée B
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 TerniFoil B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 TorinoFoil B
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2016 TorinoÉpée B

Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997) [2] is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Epee at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won a team silver, a team bronze and two individual bronze medals for Great Britain in Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan. [3]

Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 80 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR. He is the first British Parafencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).

After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Coutya won two world championships golds in Rome 2017. [4] He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy. [5] At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Coutya won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil. [6]

During the preparations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Coutya won 7 European Titles, World Championship Bronze and Silver medals (Terni 2023 - Italy), and his first European Sabre medal, a Silver in the Paris 2024 European Championship.

For several years Coutya has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.

On 3 July 2024, Coutya became the first British Fencing athlete to be selected for the Paralympics, to fence in all three individual weapons (Sabre, Foil and Epee).

In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964. He followed that with an Individual Epee Gold taking Paralympics GB's overall gold medal tally to surpass Tokyo's 41 medals. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "ParalympicsGB | Paralympicsgb announces wheelchair fencing squad for paris 2024 paralympic games". ParalympicsGB. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "ParalympicsGB | Dimitri coutya".
  3. ↑ "Wheelchair Fencing". Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Britain's Coutya wins two world titles". BBC Sport.
  5. ↑ "Coutya wins wheelchair fencing gold". BBC Sport.
  6. ↑ "British duo win gold & silver at Worlds". BBC Sport.
  7. ↑ "Coutya wins second Paris gold as GB beat Tokyo tally".
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