Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997)[2] is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Epee at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics. 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.[3]
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| Born | 7 October 1997 London, England[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weapon | Épée B / Foil B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National coach | Peter Rome | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | University of Bath | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 80 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR. He is the first British Parafencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).
After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Coutya won two world championships golds in Rome 2017.[4] He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy.[5] At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Coutya won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil.[6]
During the preparations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Coutya won 7 European Titles, World Championship Bronze and Silver medals, and his first European Sabre medal, a Silver in the Paris 2024 European Championship.
For several years Coutya has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.
On 3 July 2024, Coutya became the first British Fencing athlete to be selected for the Paralympics, to fence in all three individual weapons (Sabre, Foil and Epee).
In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964.
References
edit- ^ "ParalympicsGB | Paralympicsgb announces wheelchair fencing squad for paris 2024 paralympic games". ParalympicsGB. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "ParalympicsGB | Dimitri coutya".
- ^ "Wheelchair Fencing". Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "Britain's Coutya wins two world titles". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Coutya wins wheelchair fencing gold". BBC Sport.
- ^ "British duo win gold & silver at Worlds". BBC Sport.