Carole Vergne

Carole Vergne
Personal information
Nationality  France
Born (1985-08-07) 7 August 1985
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 12 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Event(s) Sabre
Club Lagardère Paris Racing
Coached by Pierre Guichot (national)
Morgan Fraboulet (personal)

Carole Vergne (born August 7, 1985 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French sabre fencer.[1] She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the same weapon at the 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[2][3]

Vergne represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Vergne received a bye for the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out to South Korea's Kim Keum-Hwa, with a sudden death score of 14–15.[4] Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Solenn Mary, Léonore Perrus, and Anne-Lise Touya for the women's team sabre. Vergne and her team, however, lost the bronze medal match to the U.S. team (led by Mariel Zagunis), with a total score of 38 touches.[5]

References

  1. "Carole Vergne". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  2. "Escrime : le bronze pour Carole Vergne aux Mondiaux" [Fencing: World bronze medal for Carole Vergne] (in French). Le Monde France. 3 October 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  3. "Sabre : Carole Vergne décroche le bronze" [Sabre: Carole Vergne wins bronze] (in French). Le Parisien. 3 October 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  4. "Women's Individual Sabre – Round of 32". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  5. "Women's Team Sabre – Bronze Medal Match Official". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

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