Yeisser Ramirez (born November 5, 1986) is a

Cuban-American Cuban Americans ( es, cubanoestadounidenses or ''cubanoamericanos'') are Americans who trace their cultural heritage to Cuba regardless of phenotype or ethnic origin. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Cubans, Cuban desc ...

épée fencer.

Biography

Ramirez was born in

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to Idalmis Ferrer and Francisco Ramirez. He learned to fence

épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ...

barefoot in

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. 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

1986 births Living people American male épée fencers Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games {{Cuba-fencing-bio-stub Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in fencing