For the first time ever, a Canadian is an Olympic medalist in the sport of fencing. On Sunday, Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario made Olympic history by winning bronze in the women’s foil fencing event. It was an all-North American Read more
Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario reached the quarterfinals of the women’s foil fencing tournament of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. This is the second straight day a Canadian fencer reached the quarterfinals after Fares Arfa qualified for the quarterfinals Read more
Fares Arfa made Canadian Olympic fencing history on Saturday. By advancing to the quarterfinals of the men’s sabre event, he finished in eighth place. That is the best result ever by a Canadian male fencer in the history of the Read more
The fencing competition at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has got underway, and two Canadian fencers delivered second round upsets on Saturday. In the women’s epee, Ruien Xiao of Markham, Ontario, the 25th seed, upset Nathalie Moellhausen of Brazil, Read more
Jessica Guo of Toronto, Ontario recorded her second career World Cup fencing medal on Thursday in Paris, France. The podium performance, a bronze medal in the women’s foil event, is significant because it happened in the same city that will Read more
According to Michael Charlebois of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Monday, two Canadian fencers won World Cup bronze medals this past weekend. Ruien Xiao of Markham, Ontario won the bronze medal in the women’s epee at a World Cup fencing Read more
Team Canada won six gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on Saturday. The gold medals came in the sports of canoeing, sailing, breakdancing, fencing, and athletics. In canoeing, Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Katie Vincent of Read more
Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario won a World cup fencing bronze in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday. She placed third in a foil event. Harvey beat Yiting Fu of China in the round of 64, Sumire Tsuji of Japan in the Read more
According to fencingtimelive.com, Alexanne Verret of Quebec City, Quebec won the bronze medal at a Fencing World Cup in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday. Verret, who was a graduate in accounting from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 2021, Read more
Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton, Ontario won a silver medal in the women’s foil fencing competition at the Incheon Grand Prix in South Korea on Sunday. It was Harvey’s second career Grand Prix medal as she previously won a bronze medal Read more