Fencing At The 2015 Pan American Games
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Fencing At The 2015 Pan American Games
Fencing competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 20 to 25 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre (CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House). Due to naming rights, the arena was known as the latter for the duration of the games. A total of twelve fencing events were held: six each for men and women. Competition schedule The following is the competition schedule for the fencing competitions: Medal table Medalists Men's events Women's events Participating nations A total of 17 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Qualification A total of 156 fencers qualified to compete at the games. Each nation could enter a team of up to eighteen fencers (a team consisting of three athletes in each event). A maximum of two fencers per country could be entered in the individual events, and one team in the team events ...
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Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre
The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre (TPASC; ) is a sports complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Co-owned by the City of Toronto and the University of Toronto Scarborough, it is operated by TPASC Inc., with programming offered by both the university and Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation. It is located at the northern grounds of the university's Scarborough campus near the intersection of Highway 401 and Morningside Avenue in the suburb of Scarborough. Opened to the public on September 2, 2014, the complex consists of a 3,500-seat aquatics arena (6,000 during the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games) with two Olympic-size swimming pools and a diving well; and a 2,000-seat field house that includes four full-sized gymnasiums, a fitness centre, a climbing wall, and a 200-metre track. The centre hosted diving, fencing, swimming, synchronized swimming and modern pentathlon competitions during the 2015 Pan American Games. Funding for the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre is the largest single investm ...
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Fencing At The 2015 Pan American Games – Women's Foil
The women's foil competition of the fencing events at the 2015 Pan American Games was held on July 22 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. The foil competition consisted of a qualification round followed by a single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers. Fencing was done to 15 touches or to the completion of three three-minute rounds if neither fencer reached 15 touches by then. At the end of time, the higher-scoring fencer was the winner; a tie resulted in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period. This sudden-death period was further modified by the selection of a draw-winner beforehand; if neither fencer scored a touch during the minute, the predetermined draw-winner won the bout. Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia ...
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Reynier Henrique
Reynier may refer to: ;People * Reynier (given name), Dutch masculine given name * Franck Reynier (b. 1965), French politician * Jean Reynier (1771–1814), French general * Léon Reynier (1833–1895), French virtuoso violinist ;Places * Reynier, former commune in south eastern France * Reynier Village, Los Angeles See also * Rainer (other) * Reginar * Regnier (other) Régnier or Regnier is a French given name, personal name and surname, and may refer to: Surname * Adolphe Regnier (1804-1884), French linguist * Claude Ambroise Régnier (1746–1814), French lawyer and politician * Émile Régnier (1894–1940), ... {{disambiguation, given name, surname Surnames of French origin ...
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Benjamin Bratton
Benjamin Bratton (born in Queens, New York) is a three-time fencing all-American and a former member of the United States fencing team. As a national team member, he competed in the 2006 World Fencing Championships in Turin, Italy; 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey, 2010 World Fencing Championships in Paris, and the 2012 World Fencing Championships in Kyiv. Biography Bratton was born in Queens, New York and is the oldest child of Deborah Hanson and Dwight Bratton. With both parents constantly working to support Benjamin and his two sisters, a young Bratton was often pushed by his mother into sports, hoping to keep him away from the trouble and distractions of an inner city neighborhood. As coworkers, Deborah became acquainted with American Saber Champion and 1984 Olympic Bronze medalist Peter Westbrook. Having recently created the Peter Westbrook Foundation, Westbrook invited Benjamin to participate in his Saturday Fencing Program to be taught b ...
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Yeisser Ramirez
Yeisser Ramirez (born November 5, 1986) is a Cuban-American épée fencer. Biography Ramirez was born in Cuba to Idalmis Ferrer and Francisco Ramirez. He learned to fence épée barefoot in Guantánamo Bay Guantánamo Bay ( es, Bahía de Guantánamo) is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off .... Ramirez immigrated to the U.S. in 2007 at 21 years old, after being drawn to receive an American visa in a Cuban lottery program. He represented Team USA at the Senior World Championships in 2015. Ramirez represented Team USA in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Career highlights *2012 Division 1 Men's Épée National Championships, 2nd (individual) *2013 Division 1 Men's Épée National Championships, 3rd (individual) *2015 Pan American Championships, 12th (individual) *2020 Tokyo Olympics (individual & team) References 19 ...
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Silvio Fernández (fencer Born 1979)
Silvio Fernández Briceño (born January 9, 1979 in Caracas, Distrito Capital) is a Venezuelan épée fencer. He has competed in three Olympiads (2004, 2008 and 2012) and four FIE world championships (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007). Fernández has been ranked as high as third in the world on the FIE points list. He finished 2nd at the 2008 Challenge Bernadotte in Stockholm. In June 2013, he earned the gold medal in the Pan American Fencing Championships in Cartagena after defeating his fellow countryman Rubén Limardo Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón (born August 3, 1985) is a Venezuela, Venezuelan left-handed épée Fencing, fencer, five-time team Pan American champion, four-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympic Games, Olympian, and 2012 indiv .... References 1979 births Living people Venezuelan male épée fencers Olympic fencers for Venezuela Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2007 Pan American Games Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics ...
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Francisco Limardo
Francisco Alberto Limardo Gascón (born March 27, 1987 in Ciudad Bolívar) is a Venezuelan épée fencer. He is the brother of Rubén Limardo, who won Venezuela's first gold medal from a forty-four year drought at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Limardo competed as a member of the national fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his brother Ruben, and compatriots Wolfgang Mejías and Silvio Fernández. Limardo and his team, however, lost the fifth place match of men's team épée to the Hungarian team (led by Géza Imre Géza Imre (; born 23 December 1974) is a Hungarian fencer, who has won four Olympic medals in the Épée competitions, a silver medal in 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, a bronze medal in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and a silver medal in 2 ...), with a total score of 20 touches. References External linksProfile– FIENBC 2008 Olympics profile Venezuelan male épée fencers Living people Olympic fencers for Venezuela ...
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Jason Pryor
Jason Pryor (born September 26, 1987) is an American épée fencer. He earned two individual bronze medals and a team gold medal at the Pan American Fencing Championships in 2014 and 2015, as well as an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. He represented the United States in épée at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Biography Pryor's first sport was soccer. He took up fencing when he was 11 after hearing about the sport from a friend. He was taught by coach Bill Reith at the Alcazar Fencing Club. He was later recruited by the Ohio State University, winning a team title in his junior year and earning twice All-American honors. In 2009 he graduated with a degree in English, hoping to pursue a career as a writer. As a graduation present his parents paid for his travel expenses to the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix, his first international competition, where he was scouted by USA Fencing. He then joined the resident athlete program at ...
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Hugues Boisvert-Simard
Hugues may refer to People: * Hugues de Payens (c. 1070–1136), French soldier * Hugues I de Lusignan (1194/95 –1218), French-descended ruler a.k.a. Hugh I of Cyprus * Hugues IV de Berzé (1150s–1220), French soldier * Hugues II de Lusignan (1252/53 –1267), French-descended ruler a.k.a. Hugh II of Cyprus Other: * Hugues (given name) and people bearing it See also * Hugh (other) * Hughes (other) * Huguette, a French given name * Huw Huw is a Welsh given name, a variant of Hugo or Hugh. Notable people with the name include: * Huw Bennett (born 1983), Welsh rugby player *Huw Bunford (born 1967), guitarist in the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals * Huw Cadwaladr, Welsh poet * ...
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José Domínguez (fencer)
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ...
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Rubén Limardo
Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón (born August 3, 1985) is a Venezuela, Venezuelan left-handed épée Fencing, fencer, five-time team Pan American champion, four-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympic Games, Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic champion. Limardo competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. His younger brother, Francisco Limardo, Francisco, also competes in fencing on the international level. In 2015 he was elected to the National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Olympics Born in Ciudad Bolívar, Limardo competed for his native country in the 2008 Olympics épée competition, Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's épée#Final classification, placing 23rd. Limardo competed at the London 2012, 2012 Summer Olympics in London winning a Olympic medal, gold me ...
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