Inès Boubakri (; born 28 December 1988) is a Tunisian foil fencer. She is a four-time Olympian, who won a bronze medal at the

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, and is a member of Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine in France, under head coach Yann Detienne.

Career

Boubakri represented

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at the

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, where she competed in the women's individual foil event. She lost the first preliminary round match to Chinese-born Canadian fencer and former Olympic gold medalist Jujie Luan with a score of 9–13. At the

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, Boubakri qualified for the second time in the women's individual foil event. Unlike her previous Olympics, she excelled through the preliminary rounds by defeating United States' Nicole Ross, and France's

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. Boubakri reached the quarterfinal match of this event, where she was defeated by Italian fencer and three-time Olympic champion

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, who scored a point during the "sudden death minute" leading to a final score of 7–8. Four years later, at the

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, she became the first Tunisian as well as the first African and Arab woman to win an Olympic medal in fencing when she won the bronze, on her way to the medal she beat Noura Mohamed from

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, Japanese fencer

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and then Canadian

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before losing in the semi-finals to the reigning Olympic Champion from

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, in the medal match she was up against the Russian

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. She won 15-11 after being down by 4–7 in the first period. She competed at the

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in the women's individual foil.

Family

In 2014 Boubakri married French fencer

Erwann Le Péchoux Erwann Le Péchoux (born 13 January 1982) is a French left-handed foil fencer. Le Péchoux is a four-time team European champion and four-time team world champion. A five-time Olympian, Le Péchoux is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 202 ...

, who also won a medal at the

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