Ysaora Thibus

Ysaora Thibus (born 22 August 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.[2]

Ysaora Thibus
Thibus at the French Fencing Championship 2013
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1991-08-22) 22 August 1991
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country France
SportFencing
Event(s)Foil
ClubAS Bourg-la-Reine[1]

Thibus competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.[3][4]

Thibus took up fencing at the age of 7 in Guadeloupe. At 17, she moved to France to train with the French national youth team in Aix-en-Provence, joining the senior training team in Paris a year later.[5]

Thibus founded the EssentiElle program for women athletes, which aims to amplify their voices within the world of athletics.[6]

Thibus and American foil fencer Race Imboden met at a party after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and began dating shortly afterward. The couple became engaged at the Pigalle in Paris after the Tokyo Olympic Games.[7]

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year Location Event Position
2021 Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Foil 2nd[8]

World Championship

Year Location Event Position
2013 Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Foil 2nd[9]
2014 Kazan, Russia Team Women's Foil 3rd[10]
2015 Moscow, Russia Team Women's Foil 3rd[11]
2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Team Women's Foil 3rd[12]
2017 Leipzig, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[13]
2018 Wuxi, China Individual Women's Foil 2nd[14]
2018 Wuxi, China Team Women's Foil 3rd[15]

European Championship

Year Location Event Position
2012 Legnano, Italy Team Women's Foil 2nd[16]
2013 Zagreb, Croatia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[17]
2013 Zagreb, Croatia Team Women's Foil 2nd[18]
2014 Strasbourg, France Team Women's Foil 3rd[19]
2015 Montreux, Switzerland Team Women's Foil 3rd[20]
2016 Toruń, Poland Team Women's Foil 3rd[21]
2017 Tbilisi, Georgia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[22]
2018 Novi Sad, Serbia Team Women's Foil 3rd[23]
2019 Düsseldorf, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[24]
2019 Düsseldorf, Germany Team Women's Foil 2nd[25]

Grand Prix

Date Location Event Position
2015-03-13 Havana, Cuba Individual Women's Foil 3rd[26]
2016-06-03 Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[27]
2017-05-19 Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[28]
2020-02-07 Turin, Italy Individual Women's Foil 1st[29]
2021-03-26 Doha, Qatar Individual Women's Foil 3rd[30]

World Cup

Date Location Event Position
2013-02-08 Budapest, Hungary Individual Women's Foil 3rd[31]
2013-03-01 St. Petersburg, Russia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[32]
2014-05-02 Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[33]
2015-01-16 Gdańsk, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[34]
2015-10-16 Cancún, Mexico Individual Women's Foil 1st[35]
2017-01-13 Algier, Algeria Individual Women's Foil 1st[36]
2019-01-25 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 3rd[37]
2019-05-03 Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[38]
2019-11-22 Cairo, Egypt Individual Women's Foil 3rd[39]
2020-01-10 Katowice, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[40]


References

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