Ysaora Jennifer Thibus (born 22 August 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2020 team Olympic silver medalist.[2]
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| Born | 22 August 1991 Les Abymes, Guadeloupe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | AS Bourg-la-Reine[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography edit
Ysaora Thibus is studying at the ESCP Business School. In 2013, she received the Bernard Destremau Prize from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, which rewards a high-level athlete who combines competition and higher education.[3]
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.[4]
Thibus competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games.[5] In 2016, after winning her first team bronze medal at the Rio Worlds in April,[6] 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.[7]
In 2021, she won a silver medal in the team foil event with Anita Blaze, Astrid Guyart and Pauline Ranvier at the Tokyo Olympic Games,[8] losing in the final to the Russian team.[9] Beaten in the second round in individual, she said she was "psychologically exhausted" after the Olympic competition and stopped training for four months.[10]
Thibus founded the EssentiElle program for women athletes, which aims to amplify their voices within the world of athletics.[11]
Thibus and American foil fencer Race Imboden 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 Paris, after the Tokyo Olympic Games.[12]
Thibus was suspended on February 8, 2024, after testing positive for ostarine, a banned substance.[13] She said that her positive doping test was due to an exchange of “bodily fluids” with Imboden.[13]
Medal record edit
Olympic Games edit
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2021 |  Tokyo, Japan
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Team Women's Foil | 2nd[14] |
World Championship edit
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2013 |  Budapest, Hungary
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Team Women's Foil | 2nd[15] |
| 2014 |  Kazan, Russia
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[16] |
| 2015 | Moscow, Russia
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[17] |
| 2016 |  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[18] |
| 2017 |  Leipzig, Germany
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[19] |
| 2018 |  Wuxi, China
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Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[20] |
| 2018 | Wuxi, China
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[21] |
| 2022 |  Cairo, Egypt
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Individual Women's Foil | 1st[22] |
European Championship edit
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 |  Legnano, Italy
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Team Women's Foil | 2nd[23] |
| 2013 |  Zagreb, Croatia
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[24] |
| 2013 | Zagreb, Croatia
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Team Women's Foil | 2nd[25] |
| 2014 |  Strasbourg, France
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[26] |
| 2015 |  Montreux, Switzerland
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[27] |
| 2016 |  Toruń, Poland
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[28] |
| 2017 |  Tbilisi, Georgia
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[29] |
| 2018 |  Novi Sad, Serbia
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Team Women's Foil | 3rd[30] |
| 2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[31] |
| 2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany
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Team Women's Foil | 2nd[32] |
Grand Prix edit
| Date | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2015-03-13 |  Havana, Cuba
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[33] |
| 2016-06-03 | Shanghai, China
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[34] |
| 2017-05-19 | Shanghai, China
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[35] |
| 2020-02-07 | Turin, Italy
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Individual Women's Foil | 1st[36] |
| 2021-03-26 |  Doha, Qatar
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[37] |
World Cup edit
| Date | Location | Event | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-08 | Budapest, Hungary
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[38] |
| 2013-03-01 | St. Petersburg, Russia
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[39] |
| 2014-05-02 | Shanghai, China
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[40] |
| 2015-01-16 | Gdańsk, Poland
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[41] |
| 2015-10-16 |  Cancún, Mexico
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Individual Women's Foil | 1st[42] |
| 2017-01-13 |  Algier, Algeria
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Individual Women's Foil | 1st[43] |
| 2019-01-25 | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[44] |
| 2019-05-03 | Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[45] |
| 2019-11-22 | Cairo, Egypt
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[46] |
| 2020-01-10 | Katowice, Poland
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Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[47] |
Awards edit
- Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) on 8 September 2021.[48]
References edit
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- ^ "Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus: 'I'm an athlete, but first I'm a woman, I'm a Black woman'". CNN. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ "Olympic Fencers Race Imboden and Ysaora Thibus Are Engaged! All About His Creative Proposal". People. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
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External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ysaora Thibus.
- Ysaora Thibus at the International Fencing Federation
- Ysaora Thibus at the European Fencing Confederation
- Ysaora Thibus at Olympics.com
- Ysaora Thibus at Olympedia
- Ysaora Thibus at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
- Ysaora Thibus at Team France (in French)
