Iván Trevejo (born 1 September 1971) is a Cuban-born French fencer, silver Olympic medallist in 1996 and team world champion in 1997 for Cuba. He earned a team bronze medal for France in 2013.

Biography

He won a silver medal in the individual

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event at the

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and a bronze in the team event at the

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for Cuba. He made world team champion at the 1997 World Fencing Championships in

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and placed third in the team event of the 1999 World Fencing Championships in

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. After the 2002

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he decided not to go back to Cuba. "Trevejo, acte II", ''L'Équipe'', 15 February 2013. He settled in Southern France and went on fencing on the national circuit. He married a French woman, had a daughter and eventually became a French citizen in 2010, which allowed him to be selected in the French fencing team. After ten years away from high-level competition, he reached the quarter-finals in the Legnano World Cup in January 2013 and won a bronze medal in the Challenge RFF (Paris World Cup) in May. He was a member of the French team that won the bronze medal in the

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in Budapest and finished the 2012–13 season at 10th place in FIE rankings. In the 2013–14 season he earned a bronze medal in the Legnano World Cup and in the Vancouver Grand Prix.

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