Personal information | |
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Full name | Jean-Paul Banos |
Nationality | Canadian |
Born | Lavelanet, France | 27 January 1961
Sport | |
Country | Canada |
Sport | Fencing |
Club | Scaramouche Fencing Club [1] |
Retired | 1996 [1] |
Jean-Paul Banos (born 27 January 1961) is a Canadian former fencer, who lives in Montreal, Canada. [2] [3] He competed in the individual and team sabre events at four consecutive Olympic Games between 1984 and 1996. [4] At the 1992 Summer Olympics, he defeated Russian future Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov of the gold-medal-winning Unified Team. [5]
His brother, Jean-Marie Banos, also fenced for Canada at four Olympic Games. [6]
Banos now coaches at HuaHua Fencing Club in Markham, Canada. [6]