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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | June 23, 2005|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Jinko Fencing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Jin Ko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jessica Zi Jia Guo (born 23 June 2005) [1] is a Canadian left-handed foil fencer.
In 2019, Guo won the silver medal in the women's foil event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. [2] [3] [4] In the final, she lost against American Lee Kiefer. [4] [5] [6]
Guo represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [7] She competed in the women's foil and women's team foil events. She advanced to the Table of 16 in individual foil, and helped Canada to a fifth-place finish in team foil.
In 2021, Guo won the Cadet Women's Foil World Championship in Cairo, Egypt.
On 6 April 2022, Guo successfully defended her Cadet Women's Foil World Championship title in Dubai. In the final match of women’s foil, Guo faced Great Britain’s Carolina Stutchbury, winning with a 15-7 score. In the semifinal round, Stutchbury won against Japan’s Rino Nagase, 15-10, while Guo defeated Italy’s Matilde Molinari, 15-11. [8]
She competes for the Harvard Crimson fencing team. [9]