Tiffany Géroudet (born 3 September 1986 in

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) is a Swiss

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fencer, European champion in 2011. She is currently 9th in FIE rankings.

Biography

Géroudet was born in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, in a family of three children. She practiced ski, swimming, and mountain hiking with her siblings before taking on fencing with her brother. She won her first major medal with a gold at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Taebaek City. On the same year, she won her first national championship, which she went on winning seven times in a row. She was a member of the Switzerland women's épée team that earned a bronze medal in the 2009 European Championships in

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. In 2011, she won the

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, beating along the way favourites

Laura Flessel Laura Flessel-Colovic (born 6 November 1971) is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with f ...

Nathalie Moellhausen Nathalie Moellhausen (born 1 December 1985) is an épée fencer who initially represented Italy and now represents Brazil. In 2019, she became her country's first-ever individual World Champion in épée at the Championships held in Budapest, H ...

, and

Britta Heidemann Britta Heidemann (born 22 December 1982) is a German épée fencer. In 2016, Heidemann became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Career Épée Fencing At the age of 14, already being a successful athlete and swimmer, Britta ...

. She became the first and as to 2013 only Swiss female European fencing champion. She qualified for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

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, but was beaten in the table of 16 by

Sun Yujie Sun Yujie (; born 10 August 1992) is a Chinese fencer. At 2012 Summer Olympics she won gold medal in team épée with Li Na, Luo Xiaojuan and Xu Anqi and a bronze in Women's individual épée. She won the 2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is ...

, who later took the bronze medal. In the 2013–14 season she won her first

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gold medal in Doha.

References

External links

Tiffany Géroudet site

Eurofencing bio
1986 births Living people Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers of Switzerland Swiss female épée fencers People from Sion, Switzerland Sportspeople from Valais {{Switzerland-fencing-bio-stub