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Born | Strasbourg, France | 3 April 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach | Mathieu Gourdain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Strasbourg Université Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sara Balzer (born 3 April 1995) is a French left-handed sabre fencer. She won two Olympic silver medals, the first at the 2021 team event, [1] and the second on home soil at the 2024 individual event [2] She has been ranked #1 in the world in women's sabre in 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. [3]
Balzer was born in Strasbourg to a French father and a mother of Algerian descent. Her maternal grandfather was a spahi in the French Army. [4]
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2021 | Tokyo, Japan | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd [5] |
2024 | Paris, France | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2017 | Leipzig, Germany | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd [6] |
2022 | Cairo, Egypt | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd [6] |
2023 | Milan, Italy | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd [6] |
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2017 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Team Women's Sabre | 3rd [7] |
2022 | Antalya, Turkey | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd [8] |
2023 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd [8] |
Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2017-03-24 | Yangzhou, China | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd [9] |
2022-03-03 | Athens, Greece | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd [10] |
2023-03-17 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
2023-05-12 | Batumi, Georgia | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
2023-11-09 | Algiers, Algeria | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
2024-03-01 | Acropolis, Greece | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [10] |
2024-03-15 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [10] |
2024-05-17 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [10] |
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2023-04-28 | Seoul, South Korea | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd [5] |
2023-12-08 | Orleans, France | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd [5] |
2024-05-05 | Seoul, South Korea | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd [5] |
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