Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario won the bronze medal on Saturday in a World Cup Women’s Foil Fencing event in Vancouver. For Harvey, it was her seventh career World Cup foil fencing medal of her career.
Harvey shared the podium with Arianna Errigo of Italy. Martina Favaretto of Italy won the gold medal and Lee Kiefer of the United States won the silver medal.
During the World Cup event in Vancouver, Harvey received a bye in the first round because she was the third seed and ranked third in the world. Harvey then defeated Maxine Jie Xin Wong of Singapore 15-10 in the second round, Karolina Zurawska of Poland 12-10 in the third round, Constance Catarzi of France 9-6 in the fourth round, and Komaki Kikuchi of Japan 15-9 in the quarterfinals. Harvey then lost to Kiefer 15-10 in the semifinals.
Harvey won a bronze medal in the women’s foil fencing at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. She has one World Cup gold medal, two silver medals, and four bronze medals. Harvey’s World Cup gold medal came in Egypt in March, her World Cup silver medals have been in Poznan, Poland in 2022 and Busan, South Korea in 2024, and her other three bronze medals came in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2022, in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2023, and in Tunis, Tunisia in 2024. The bronze medal in Vancouver will give Harvey confidence as she prepares for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
