Ysaora Jennifer Thibus (born 22 August 1991 in Guadeloupe) is a French right-handed

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fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.

Biography

Ysaora Thibus is studying at the

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. In 2013, she received the Bernard Destremau Prize from the

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, which rewards a high-level athlete who combines competition and higher education. Thibus took up fencing at the age of 7 in Guadeloupe. At 17, she moved to France to train with the French national youth team in Aix-en-Provence, joining the senior training team in Paris a year later. Thibus competed in the

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. In 2016, after winning her first team bronze medal at the Rio Worlds in April, she participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. She reached her first individual world podium in 2017 in Leipzig with a third place, then in 2018 in Wuxi where she lost 12-15 in the final to Alice Volpi. In 2021, she won a silver medal in the team foil event with Anita Blaze, Astrid Guyart and Pauline Ranvier at the

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, losing in the final to the Russian team. Beaten in the second round in individual, she said she was "psychologically exhausted" after the Olympic competition and stopped training for four months. Thibus founded the EssentiElle program for women athletes, which aims to amplify their voices within the world of athletics. Thibus and American foil fencer

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met at a party after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and began dating shortly afterward. The couple became engaged at Le Pigalle, a hotel in

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, after the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Medal record

Olympic Games

World Championship

European Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

Awards

* Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) on the 8th of September 2021.

References

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External links

Profile
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Profile – French Olympic Committee

EuroFencing Profile
1991 births Living people French female foil fencers Olympic fencers of France Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in fencing French people of Guadeloupean descent People from Les Abymes Universiade bronze medalists for France World Fencing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in fencing Olympic silver medalists for France 21st-century French women {{France-fencing-bio-stub