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Anita Blaze

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Anita Blaze
Personal information
Born (1991-10-29) 29 October 1991 (age 33)
Baie-Mahault, France
NationalityFrench
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
CountryFrance
WeaponFoil
HandRight-handed
ClubCM Aubervilliers
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's foil
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Budapest Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Moscow Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Wuxi Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo Team
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Legnano Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Zagreb Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Antalya Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Montreux Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Novi Sad Team
Military World Games
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Wuhan Individual

Anita Blaze (born 29 October 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.[1] Blaze competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.[2]

Career

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Blaze (left) with Team France at the 2013 World Fencing Championships

Blaze was born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France. She took up fencing at the age of four and learnt the sport in the club of Petit-Bourg. She quickly showed talent and was selected into a centre for promising athletes in metropolitan France. She won a team silver medal in the 2008 Cadet European Championships in Rovigo and an individual silver medal in the 2010 Junior World Championships in Baku.[3]

She joined the French senior national team, with whom she earned a team silver medal in the 2012 European Championships in Legnano. She competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as first reserve.[4] After defeating Poland in the quarter-finals, France were routed 45–22 by Italy, whose team comprised all three individual Olympic medallists. France met South Korea in the final for the bronze medal. Blaze managed to reduce the 12-hit advantage acquired early by Korea, but France lost eventually 32 to 45.[5]

In the 2012–13 season Blaze reached the quarter-finals in the Budapest Grand Prix and earned a double silver medal in the French national championship. She finished 30th in the Fencing World Cup, a career best as of 2014. She took another team silver medal at the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb, after France was again defeated by Italy.[6] History repeated itself at the World Championships a month later in Budapest: France met Italy in the final and lost heavily 45–18, coming home with a silver medal.[7] In the 2013–14 season Blaze reached the quarter-finals in the Tauberbischofsheim Grand Prix, but otherwise disappointing results and a calf strain caused her to be dropped from the French team that won bronze medals in the European Championships and the World Championships.

In the 2014–15 season Blaze climbed the first World Cup podium in her career with a bronze medal in the Torino Grand Prix, after she was defeated in the semi-final by twice World champion Arianna Errigo.[8]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Foil 2nd[9]

World Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2013 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Foil 2nd[10]
2015 Russia Moscow, Russia Team Women's Foil 3rd[11]
2018 China Wuxi, China Team Women's Foil 3rd[12]

European Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2012 Italy Legnano, Italy Team Women's Foil 2nd[13]
2013 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Team Women's Foil 2nd[14]
2015 Switzerland Montreux, Switzerland Team Women's Foil 3rd[15]
2018 Serbia Novi Sad, Serbia Team Women's Foil 3rd[16]
2019 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Team Women's Foil 2nd[17]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2014-11-28 Italy Turin, Italy Individual Women's Foil 3rd[18]

World Cup

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Date Location Event Position
2022-04-29 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 2nd[19]

References

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  1. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  2. ^ Fencing - Foil - Women's Team Finals | London 2012 Olympic Games, retrieved 2021-09-15
  3. ^ "Argent content !" (in French). Lagardère Paris Racing. 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014.
  4. ^ Karen Bourgeois (29 March 2012). "Escrime : Anita Blaze et Isaora [sic] Thibus iront aux JO" (in French). DOMactu.com.
  5. ^ Florian Egly (2 August 2012). "Encore raté pour l'escrime" (in French).
  6. ^ "Zagreb : L'argent pour les Françaises" (in French). France Bleu. 18 June 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2014.
  7. ^ "Mondiaux 2013 Budapest: Médaille d'argent pour le fleuret dames par équipes" (in French). Eurosport. 10 August 2013.
  8. ^ Fabrizio Turco (29 November 2014). "Scherma, fioretto: un'altra rivincita per la Errigo. Suo il derby con la Di Francisca". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian).
  9. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  10. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  11. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  12. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  13. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  14. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  15. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  16. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  17. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  18. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  19. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
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