Team USA’s Men’s Foil Fencers Aim To Parry Their Way To Gold: “Together, We Are Unstoppable”
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
Athlete Bio#
Age
24
Hometown
Ridgewood, NJ
Education
Harvard University '23
Personal
- Hobbies include listening to music, playing video games, playing piano and guitar and skiing with his friends
- His favorite memory is getting an E rating at 10
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2023 – bronze (Team Sabre - Men), 16th (Individual Sabre - Men)
- Years of participation: Individual Sabre - Men 2023; Team Sabre - Men 2023
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2023 (Team Sabre - Men)
Career Highlights
- World Junior Championships, Torun, 2019 (Individual Sabre - Men, Team Sabre - Men)
- World Junior Championships, Verona, 2018 (Team Sabre - Men, Individual Sabre - Men)
Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian
- Olympic Games Paris 2024, 7th (Team Sabre - Men), 14th (Individual Sabre - Men)
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