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Enzo Lefort

Enzo Lefort (born 29 September 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer.[1]

Enzo Lefort
Lefort at the Challenge Revenu 2013
Personal information
Full nameEnzo Boris Lefort
Born (1991-09-29) 29 September 1991 (age 33)
Cayenne, Guiana, France
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
CountryFrance
WeaponFoil
HandRight-handed
ClubClub d'escrime Melun Val-de-Seine / INSEP
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Men's foil
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Kazan Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest Individual
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cairo Individual
Silver medal – second place 2019 Budapest Team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Kazan Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Leipzig Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Milan Individual
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Strasbourg Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Montreux Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tbilisi Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Basel Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 Legnano Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Plovdiv Individual
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Düsseldorf Individual

Lefort is a four-time team European champion, 2014 team world champion, and two-time individual world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Lefort is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 2021 team Olympic champion.

Lefort competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career

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Lefort was born in French Guiana. He discovered fencing when he was five, while watching fellow French Caribbean Laura Flessel win the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta.[2] He began fencing at CREPS in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, where he trained under Ruddy Plicoste along with Jean-Paul Tony Helissey and Ysaora Thibus.[3] He later joined the centre for promising athletes in Châtenay-Malabry in metropolitan France.

Lefort won the French national championship in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil, but was defeated in the second round.[4] In the team event, France were defeated 39–45 against the United States in the quarter-finals. After the fencing section of the Lagardère Paris Racing was dissolved, Lefort joined the Cercle d'Escrime Melun Val de Seine.

In the 2013–14 season Lefort won the Challenge International de Paris, his first World Cup medal,[5] and climbed the podium in Venice, Saint-Petersburg and Havana. In the European Championships at Strasbourg, Lefort was defeated in the second round by Denmark's Emil Ulrik Andersen. In the team event, France received a bye, then overcame the Czech Republic and Russia to meet Italy in the final. They prevailed 45–41 to earn the gold medal. A month later in the World Championships at Kazan, Lefort was seeded number two. He made his way to the quarter-finals, where he defeated reigning European champion James-Andrew Davis, but was defeated in the semi-final by Aleksey Cheremisinov of Russia and came away with a bronze medal.[6] In the team event, No.2 seeded France received a bye, then knocked out Hong Kong, Germany and hosts Russia to meet China in the Final. They beat China 45–25 to earn the gold medal.[7] Lefort finished the season No.2 in FIE rankings.

In 2017, he was the flag bearer for France at the World Military Championships.[8]

At the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, he won gold in the individual men's foil.[9] That year, he also won bronze in the European Championships.[10]

National Honours

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He was named a Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2016, and a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 2021.[8]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2016   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Team Men's Foil 2nd[11]
2021   Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Foil 1st[12]

World Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2013   Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Foil 3rd[13]
2014   Kazan, Russia Individual Men's Foil 3rd[14]
2014   Kazan, Russia Team Men's Foil 1st[15]
2017   Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Foil 3rd[16]
2019   Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Foil 1st[17]
2019   Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Foil 2nd[18]
2022   Cairo, Egypt Individual Men's Foil 1st[19]
2022   Cairo, Egypt Team Men's Foil 3rd[20]

European Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2012   Legnano, Italy Team Men's Foil 2nd[21]
2014   Strasbourg, France Team Men's Foil 1st[22]
2015   Montreux, Switzerland Team Men's Foil 1st[23]
2017   Tbilisi, Georgia Team Men's Foil 1st[24]
2019   Düsseldorf, Germany Individual Men's Foil 3rd[25]
2019   Düsseldorf, Germany Team Men's Foil 1st[26]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2014-03-01   St. Petersburg, Russia Individual Men's Foil 2nd[27]
2014-03-15   Venice, Italy Individual Men's Foil 2nd[28]
2016-12-02   Turin, Italy Individual Men's Foil 3rd[29]
2017-12-01   Turin, Italy Individual Men's Foil 3rd[30]

World Cup

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Date Location Event Position
2014-01-17   Paris, France Individual Men's Foil 1st[31]
2014-05-23   Havana, Cuba Individual Men's Foil 3rd[32]
2014-11-07   Tokyo, Japan Individual Men's Foil 3rd[33]
2015-01-16   Paris, France Individual Men's Foil 3rd[34]
2017-02-10   Bonn, Germany Individual Men's Foil 2nd[35]
2018-11-09   Bonn, Germany Individual Men's Foil 3rd[36]
2020-01-10   Paris, France Individual Men's Foil 3rd[37]

References

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  2. ^ Jean-Luc Ferré (16 July 2014). "Enzo Lefort, la nouvelle pépite de l'escrime tricolore". La Croix.
  3. ^ Arnaud Bevilacqua (23 January 2014). "Les Antilles font toujours le bonheur de l'escrime tricolore". La Croix.
  4. ^ "Enzo Lefort". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Enzo Lefort : " C'est le déclic, je crois ! "". Le Parisien. 20 January 2014.
  6. ^ Patrick Issert (19 July 2014). "Du bronze pour Lefort". L'Équipe.
  7. ^ Patrick Issert (22 July 2014). "Fleuret : les Bleus sacrés". L'Équipe.
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