Erwann Le Péchoux

Erwann Le Péchoux
Le Péchoux at the 2014 Master de fleuret
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Petit Homme
Born	(1982-01-13) 13 January 1982 (age 39) Pertuis, Vaucluse, France
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Franck Boidin
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championships 2005 Leipzig Team 2006 Turin Team 2007 St Petersburg Team 2014 Kazan Team 2011 Catania Team 2019 Budapest Team 2013 Budapest Team 2017 Leipzig Team European Championships 2014 Strasbourg Team 2015 Montreux Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2011 Sheffield Team 2012 Legnano Team 2016 Torún Individual 2007 Ghent Individual 2014 Strasbourg Individual

Erwann Le Péchoux (born 13 January 1982) is a French left-handed foil fencer.^[1] Le Péchoux is a four-time team European champion and four-time team world champion. A five-time Olympian, Le Péchoux is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 2021 team Olympic champion. Le Péchoux competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Le Péchoux is married to Tunisian foil fencer Inès Boubakri.^[2] Since Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslim men in Tunisia, he converted to Islam to marry her.^[3]

Medal record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Foil	2nd[4]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Foil	1st[5]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2005	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[6]
2006	Turin, Italy	Team Men's Foil	1st[7]
2007	St. Petersburg, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[8]
2011	Catania, Italy	Team Men's Foil	2nd[9]
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd[10]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[11]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[12]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	2nd[13]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2007	Ghent, Belgium	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[14]
2011	Sheffield, United Kingdom	Team Men's Foil	2nd[15]
2012	Legnano, Italy	Team Men's Foil	2nd[16]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[17]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	1st[18]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Foil	1st[19]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[20]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	1st[21]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[22]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
16 May 2003	Espinho, Portugal	Individual Men's Foil	1st[23]
21 January 2005	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[24]
18 March 2005	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[25]
24 June 2005	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	1st[26]
25 May 2007	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	1st[27]
6 October 2007	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[28]
25 January 2008	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[29]
5 February 2008	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
5 January 2009	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st[31]
5 September 2011	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st[32]
3 March 2012	Venice, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	1st[33]
15 May 2015	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[34]
19 May 2017	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[35]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
25 March 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	1st[36]
2 October 2006	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[37]
13 January 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark	Individual Men's Foil	1st[38]
23 March 2007	Venice, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	1st[39]
15 June 2007	Margarita Island, Venezuela	Individual Men's Foil	1st[40]
1 May 2008	Algier, Algeria	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[41]
3 January 2008	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	1st[42]
29 May 2008	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	1st[43]
31 January 2009	A Coruña, Spain	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[44]
2 June 2010	A Coruña, Spain	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[45]
28 January 2011	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st[46]
17 February 2012	A Coruña, Spain	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[47]
26 April 2013	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[48]
2 May 2016	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[49]
11 November 2016	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[50]
11 October 2017	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	1st[51]
3 January 2019	Copenhagen, Denmark	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[52]
5 March 2019	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[53]

References[]

External links[]

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• Erwann Le Péchoux at FIE
• Erwann Le Péchoux at European Fencing Confederation
• Erwann Le Péchoux at Olympics.com
• Erwann Le Péchoux at the French Olympic Committee (in French)
• Erwann Le Péchoux at Olympedia
• Profile at the European Fencing Confederation