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Dimitri Coutya

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Dimitri Coutya
Personal information
Born (1997-10-07) 7 October 1997 (age 27)
London, England[1]
Sport
WeaponÉpée B / Foil B
National coachPeter Rome
ClubUniversity of Bath
Medal record
Men's wheelchair fencing
Representing  Great Britain
Summer Paralympics
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Épée B
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Foil B
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team foil
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team épée
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team Foil
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Foil B
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Team épée
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Épée B
IWAS World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2024 Terni Épée B
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Terni Foil B
Gold medal – first place 2019 Cheongju Épée B
Silver medal – second place 2019 Cheongju Foil B
Gold medal – first place 2017 Rome Épée B
Gold medal – first place 2017 Rome Foil B
Silver medal – second place 2015 Eger Foil B
IWAS European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Épée B
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Foil B
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team foil B
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Sabre B
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team épée B
Gold medal – first place 2022 Warsaw Foil B
Gold medal – first place 2022 Warsaw Épée B
Gold medal – first place 2022 Warsaw Team Foil
Gold medal – first place 2022 Warsaw Team épée
Gold medal – first place 2018 Terni Épée B
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Terni Foil B
Silver medal – second place 2016 Torino Foil B
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Torino Épée B

Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997)[2] is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Epee 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 80 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR. He is the first British Parafencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).

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, 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 Epee).

In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964.

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.
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