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Dimitri Coutya

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Dimitri Coutya
MBE
Personal information
Born (1997-10-07) 7 October 1997 (age 28)
London, England[1]
Fencing career
SportFencing
WeaponÉpée B / Foil B
National coachGlen Golding
ClubUniversity of Bath
Medal record
Men's wheelchair fencing
Representing  Great Britain
Summer Paralympics
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisÉpée B
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisFoil B
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisTeam foil
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisTeam épée
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoTeam Foil
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoFoil B
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoTeam épée
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoÉpée B
IWAS World Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 IksanFoil B
Bronze medal – third place2025 IksanÉpée B
Silver medal – second place2024 TerniÉpée B
Bronze medal – third place2024 TerniFoil B
Gold medal – first place2019 CheongjuÉpée B
Silver medal – second place2019 CheongjuFoil B
Gold medal – first place2017 RomeÉpée B
Gold medal – first place2017 RomeFoil B
Silver medal – second place2015 EgerFoil B
IWAS European Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisÉpée B
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisFoil B
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisTeam foil B
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisSabre B
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisTeam épée B
Gold medal – first place2022 WarsawFoil B
Gold medal – first place2022 WarsawÉpée B
Gold medal – first place2022 WarsawTeam Foil
Gold medal – first place2022 WarsawTeam épée
Gold medal – first place2018 TerniÉpée B
Bronze medal – third place2018 TerniFoil B
Silver medal – second place2016 TorinoFoil B
Bronze medal – third place2016 TorinoÉpée B

Dimitri Coutya, MBE (born 7 October 1997)[2] is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Épée at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won a team silver, a team bronze and two individual bronze medals for Great Britain in Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan.[3]

Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 82 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR.

After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Coutya won two world championships golds in Rome 2017.[4] He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy.[5] At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Coutya won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil.[6]

During the preparations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Coutya won 7 European Titles, World Championship Bronze and Silver medals (Terni 2023 - Italy), and his first European Sabre medal, a Silver in the Paris 2024 European Championship.

For several years Coutya has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.

On 3 July 2024, Coutya became the first British Fencing athlete to be selected for the Paralympics, to fence in all three individual weapons (Sabre, Foil and Épée).

In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964. He followed that with an Individual Épée Gold taking Paralympics GB's overall gold medal tally to surpass Tokyo's 41 medals.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ "ParalympicsGB | Paralympicsgb announces wheelchair fencing squad for paris 2024 paralympic games". ParalympicsGB. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "ParalympicsGB | Dimitri coutya".
  3. ↑ "Wheelchair Fencing". Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Britain's Coutya wins two world titles". BBC Sport.
  5. ↑ "Coutya wins wheelchair fencing gold". BBC Sport.
  6. ↑ "British duo win gold & silver at Worlds". BBC Sport.
  7. ↑ "Coutya wins second Paris gold as GB beat Tokyo tally".
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