Ysaora Thibus
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Born | Les Abymes, Guadeloupe | 22 August 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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]
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 "sexual contact" with her fiancé, former Olympic fencer Race Imboden. She appealed her suspension by asserting she was unknowingly contaminated through an exchange of "bodily fluids".[13] On May 21, 2024, she sent out the news that she was cleared from doping charges and was back on track towards competing in the Paris Olympic Games.[14] In August 2024, she competed in the women's individual foil and the team foil events during the Paris Olympics.[15]
Medal record
[edit]Olympic Games
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2021 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[16] |
World Championship
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2013 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[17] |
2014 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[18] |
2015 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[19] |
2016 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[20] |
2017 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[21] |
2018 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[22] |
2018 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[23] |
2022 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[24] |
European Championship
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2012 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[25] |
2013 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[26] |
2013 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[27] |
2014 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[28] |
2015 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[29] |
2016 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[30] |
2017 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[31] |
2018 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[32] |
2019 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[33] |
2019 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[34] |
Grand Prix
[edit]Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2015-03-13 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[35] |
2016-06-03 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[36] |
2017-05-19 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[37] |
2020-02-07 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[38] |
2021-03-26 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[39] |
World Cup
[edit]Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2013-02-08 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[40] |
2013-03-01 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[41] |
2014-05-02 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[42] |
2015-01-16 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[43] |
2015-10-16 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[44] |
2017-01-13 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[45] |
2019-01-25 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[46] |
2019-05-03 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[47] |
2019-11-22 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[48] |
2020-01-10 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[49] |
Awards
[edit]- Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) on 8 September 2021.[50]
References
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- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Ysaora Thibus chevalière de l'ordre du mérite". Outre-mer la 1ère (in French). 16 March 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – Ysaora Thibus profile". INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
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- ^ "Championnats du monde d'escrime par équipe de Rio : l'heure du bilan". Eurosport (in French). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Escrime. Ysaora Thibus est vice-championne du monde de fleuret". Ouest-France. 23 July 2018.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Les fleurettistes françaises médaillées d'argent des JO de Tokyo après leur défaite contre la Russie en finale". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Champions du monde au Caire : Ysaora Thibus – Romain Cannone, chemins croisés, destins dorés". Eurosport (in French). 19 July 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus: 'I'm an athlete, but first I'm a woman, I'm a Black woman'". CNN. 22 October 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ "Olympic Fencers Race Imboden and Ysaora Thibus Are Engaged! All About His Creative Proposal". People. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ a b "World champion fencer blames failed drug test on 'sexual contact' with Olympian hubby | Calgary Sun".
- ^ Associated Press (21 May 2024). "Ysaora Thibus says she has been cleared of doping ban". ESPN. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Ysaora Thibus | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
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External links
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- 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)
- 1991 births
- Living people
- French female foil fencers
- Olympic fencers for France
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- French people of Guadeloupean descent
- People from Les Abymes
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for France
- World Fencing Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- 21st-century French sportswomen
- Fencers at the 2023 European Games
- European Games silver medalists for France
- European Games medalists in fencing
- Fencers at the 2024 Summer Olympics