Carole Vergne (born August 7, 1985, in

Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast. The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the A ...

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) is a French sabre fencer. She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the same weapon at the

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. Vergne represented

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at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Vergne received a bye for the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out to South Korea's Kim Keum-Hwa, with a sudden death score of 14–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Solenn Mary,

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, and

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for the women's team sabre. Vergne and her team, however, lost the bronze medal match to the U.S. team (led by

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), with a total score of 38 touches.

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1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Saint-Malo French female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for France Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing Fencers at the 2009 Mediterranean Games 21st-century French women {{France-fencing-bio-stub