Dimitri Coutya
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Born | 7 October 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Épée B / Foil B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach | Peter Rome | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | University of Bath | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997)[1] is a British wheelchair fencer. 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.[2]
Fencing internationally in Epee Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 48 Men Single Individual medals for Paralympics GB. He is the first British wheelchair fencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).
After reaching the Epee quarter final in Rio 2016, Dimitri won two world championships golds in Rome 2017.[3] He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy [4].At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Dimitri won a Gold in Epee and a Silver in Foil.[5]
For several years Dimitri has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Epee and Cat B Foil.
References[]
- Living people
- 1997 births
- Wheelchair fencers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics