Enzo Lefort

Enzo Lefort
Lefort at the Challenge Revenu 2013
Personal information
Full name	Enzo Boris Lefort
Born	(1991-09-29) 29 September 1991 (age 30) Cayenne, France
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	Right-handed
Club	Club d'escrime Melun Val-de-Seine / INSEP
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championships 2014 Kazan Team 2019 Budapest Individual 2019 Budapest Team 2013 Budapest Team 2014 Kazan Individual 2017 Leipzig Team European Championships 2014 Strasbourg Team 2015 Montreux Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2012 Legnano Team 2019 Düsseldorf Individual

Enzo Lefort (born 29 September 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer.^[1]

Lefort is a four-time team European champion, 2014 team world champion, and 2019 individual world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Lefort is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 2021 team Olympic champion.

Lefort competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career[]

Lefort was born in French Guiana. He discovered fencing when he was five, while watching fellow French Caribbean Laura Flessel win the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta.^[2] He began fencing at CREPS in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, where he trained under Ruddy Plicoste along with Jean-Paul Tony Helissey and Ysaora Thibus.^[3] He later joined the centre for promising athletes in Châtenay-Malabry in metropolitan France.

Lefort won the French national championship in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil, but was defeated in the second round.^[4] In the team event, France were defeated 39–45 against the United States in the quarter-finals. After the fencing section of the Lagardère Paris Racing was dissolved, Lefort joined the Cercle d'Escrime Melun Val de Seine.

In the 2013–14 season Lefort won the Challenge International de Paris, his first World Cup medal,^[5] and climbed the podium in Venice, Saint-Petersburg and Havana. In the European Championships at Strasbourg, Lefort was defeated in the second round by Denmark's . In the team event, France received a bye, then overcame the Czech Republic and Russia to meet Italy in the final. They prevailed 45–41 to earn the gold medal. A month later in the World Championships at Kazan, Lefort was seeded number two. He made his way to the quarter-finals, where he defeated reigning European champion James-Andrew Davis, but was defeated in the semi-final by Aleksey Cheremisinov of Russia and came away with a bronze medal.^[6] In the team event, No.2 seeded France received a bye, then knocked out Hong Kong, Germany and hosts Russia to meet China in the Final. They beat China 45–25 to earn the gold medal.^[7] Lefort finished the season No.2 in FIE rankings.

Medal Record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Foil	2nd[8]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Foil	1st[9]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd[10]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[11]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[12]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[13]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Foil	1st[14]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	2nd[15]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2012	Legnano, Italy	Team Men's Foil	2nd[16]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	1st[17]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Foil	1st[18]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	1st[19]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[20]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[21]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/01/2014	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[22]
03/15/2014	Venice, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[23]
12/02/2016	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[24]
12/01/2017	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[25]

World Cup[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
01/17/2014	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st[26]
05/23/2014	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[27]
11/07/2014	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[28]
01/16/2015	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[29]
02/10/2017	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
11/09/2018	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[31]
01/10/2020	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[32]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Enzo Lefort.

• Enzo Lefort at the International Fencing Federation
• Enzo Lefort at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Profile at the European Fencing Confederation