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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]
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 an exchange of “bodily fluids” with Imboden. [13]
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2021 | Tokyo, Japan | Team Women's Foil | 2nd [14] |
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2013 | Budapest, Hungary | Team Women's Foil | 2nd [15] |
2014 | Kazan, Russia | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [16] |
2015 | Moscow, Russia | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [17] |
2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [18] |
2017 | Leipzig, Germany | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [19] |
2018 | Wuxi, China | Individual Women's Foil | 2nd [20] |
2018 | Wuxi, China | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [21] |
2022 | Cairo, Egypt | Individual Women's Foil | 1st [22] |
Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2012 | Legnano, Italy | Team Women's Foil | 2nd [23] |
2013 | Zagreb, Croatia | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [24] |
2013 | Zagreb, Croatia | Team Women's Foil | 2nd [25] |
2014 | Strasbourg, France | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [26] |
2015 | Montreux, Switzerland | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [27] |
2016 | Toruń, Poland | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [28] |
2017 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [29] |
2018 | Novi Sad, Serbia | Team Women's Foil | 3rd [30] |
2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [31] |
2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Team Women's Foil | 2nd [32] |
Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2015-03-13 | Havana, Cuba | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [33] |
2016-06-03 | Shanghai, China | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [34] |
2017-05-19 | Shanghai, China | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [35] |
2020-02-07 | Turin, Italy | Individual Women's Foil | 1st [36] |
2021-03-26 | Doha, Qatar | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [37] |
Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2013-02-08 | Budapest, Hungary | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [38] |
2013-03-01 | St. Petersburg, Russia | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [39] |
2014-05-02 | Shanghai, China | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [40] |
2015-01-16 | Gdańsk, Poland | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [41] |
2015-10-16 | Cancún, Mexico | Individual Women's Foil | 1st [42] |
2017-01-13 | Algier, Algeria | Individual Women's Foil | 1st [43] |
2019-01-25 | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [44] |
2019-05-03 | Tauberbischofsheim, Germany | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [45] |
2019-11-22 | Cairo, Egypt | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [46] |
2020-01-10 | Katowice, Poland | Individual Women's Foil | 3rd [47] |