Inès Boubakri ( ar, إيناس بوبكري; born 28 December 1988) is a Tunisian foil fencer. She is a four-time Olympian, who won a bronze medal at the

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, and is a member of Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine in France, under head coach Yann Detienne.

Career

Boubakri represented Tunisia at the

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in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual foil event. She lost the first preliminary round match to Chinese-born Canadian fencer and former Olympic gold medalist

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with a score of 9–13. At the

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in London, Boubakri qualified for the second time in the women's individual foil event. Unlike her previous Olympics, she excelled through the preliminary rounds by defeating United States' Nicole Ross, and France's Astrid Guyart. Boubakri reached the quarterfinal match of this event, where she was defeated by Italian fencer and three-time Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali, who scored a point during the "sudden death minute" leading to a final score of 7–8. Four years later, at the

in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first Tunisian as well as the first African and Arab woman to win an Olympic medal in fencing when she won the bronze, on her way to the medal she beat

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from Egypt, Japanese fencer

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and then Canadian

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before losing in the semi-finals to the reigning Olympic Champion from Italy Elisa Di Francisca, in the medal match she was up against the Russian Aida Shanayeva. She won 15-11 after being down by 4–7 in the first period. She competed at the

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in the women's individual foil.

Family

In 2014 Boubakri married French fencer Erwann Le Péchoux, who also won a medal at the

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– FIE
NBC Olympics Profile
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