Lea Melissa Moutoussamy (ليا ميليسا موتوسامي) is a right-handed Algerian
sabre
A sabre ( French: sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...
fencer.
At the
2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the
Women's sabre, losing in the first round to Russian
Sofiya Velikaya
Sofiya Aleksandrovna Velikaya ( rus, Софья Александровна Великая, , ˈsofʲjə vʲɪˈlʲikəjə; born 8 June 1985) is a Russian sabre fencer.
Velikaya is a former European champion (four-time individual, six-time t ...
by a score of 15–6.
When she competed in 2012, she was the youngest fencer to ever have participated in the Olympics; she was 14 years and 288 days old.
Moutoussamy was born on 18 October 1997, in Paris, France.
She fences with the club US Metro, in Paris.
References
Algerian female sabre fencers
Living people
Olympic fencers for Algeria
Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Fencers from Paris
Algerian people of French descent
French female sabre fencers
21st-century Algerian people
1997 births
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