Inès Boubakri

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Inès Boubakri
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Personal information
Born (1988-12-28) 28 December 1988 (age 33)
Tunis, Tunisia
Nationality Tunisia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
WeaponFoil
Handleft-handed
ClubAssociation sportive de Bourg-la-Reine[1]
Head coachYann Detienne[1]
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's fencing
Representing  Tunisia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Kazan Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Wuxi Individual
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2013 Mersin Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Pescara Individual
African Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Salé Individual Foil

Inès Boubakri (Arabic: إيناس بوبكري; born 28 December 1988) is a Tunisian foil fencer.[2][1] She is a four-time Olympian, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] and is a member of Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine in France, under head coach Yann Detienne.[1]

Career[]

Boubakri represented Tunisia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual foil event. She lost the first preliminary round match to Chinese-born Canadian fencer and former Olympic gold medalist Jujie Luan, with a score of 9–13.[4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Boubakri qualified for the second time in the women's individual foil event. Unlike her previous Olympics, she excelled through the preliminary rounds by defeating United States' Nicole Ross, and France's Astrid Guyart.[5] Boubakri reached the quarterfinal match of this event, where she was defeated by Italian fencer and three-time Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali, who scored a point during the "sudden death minute" leading to a final score of 7–8.[6][7]

Four years later at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first Tunisian as well as the first African and Arab woman to win an Olympic medal in fencing when she won the bronze,[8] on her way to the medal she beat Noura Mohamed from Egypt, Japanese fencer Shiho Nishioka and then Canadian Eleanor Harvey before losing in the semi-finals to the reigning Olympic Champion from Italy Elisa Di Francisca, in the medal match she was up against the Russian Aida Shanayeva and she won 15-11 after being down by 4–7 in the first period.[9]

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's individual foil.[10]

Family[]

In 2014 Boubakri married French fencer Erwann Le Péchoux,[11] who also won a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[12]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Ines Boubakri". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ines Boubakri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Boubakri, Ines". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Women's Individual Foil – Round of 64". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  5. ^ Staff (29 July 2012). "Lochte captures first U.S. gold; China nets four". CNN. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Women's Individual Foil – Quarterfinals". London 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Triple Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali survived a close quarterfinal match". FIE. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Fencing-Five to watch at the Tokyo Olympics". Reuters. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Ines Boubakri wins bronze". nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Fencing BOUBAKRI Ines - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  11. ^ "Il fiorettista francese Erwann Le Pechoux ha sposato oggi la collega tunisina Ines Boubakri, bronzo mondiale a Kazan". Pianeta Scherma. 2 August 2014.
  12. ^ "Olympic Pair". rfi.fr. Retrieved 25 October 2016.

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