Tiffany Géroudet (born 3 September 1986 in Sion,

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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 Sion,

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, 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, a gold, at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Taebaek City. In the same year, she won her first national championship, which she would win seven consecutive seasons. 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 the favourites

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, and Britta Heidemann. She became the first and as of 2013 only Swiss female European fencing champion. She qualified for the

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, but was beaten in the table of 16 by eventual bronze medal winner Sun Yujie. In the 2013–14 seasonat Dona she won her first

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gold medal.

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 for Switzerland Swiss female épée fencers Sportspeople from Sion, Switzerland 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-fencing-bio-stub