Cécilia Berder Explained

Cécilia Berder
Nickname:	Cec
Country:	France
Birth Date:	13 December 1989
Birth Place:	Morlaix, France
Height:	1.73 m
Weight:	69 kg
Weapon:	Sabre
Hand:	right-handed
Club:	Cercle d'Escrime Orléanais / INSEP
Natlcoach:	Jean-Philippe Daurelle
Fieranking:	current ranking

Cécilia Berder (born 13 December 1989) is a French right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.^[1]

Career

Berder was born in 1989 in Morlaix, and grew up in the nearby city of Quimper. A very energetic child, she was pushed by her parents toward sport. Her first choice was rock climbing, but the class was full, so she opted for fencing at Escrime Quimper Cornouaille.^[2]

She first tried foil, the traditional teaching weapon, but found it boring. Coach Serge Larher suggested she try sabre, even though the class had only boys.After her baccalauréat, she joined the centre for promising young athletes in Orléans, where she trained with the likes of Anne-Lise Touya and Léonore Perrus.^[3] She won the bronze medal in the 2007 Junior European Fencing Championships at Prague.

In 2008, Berder was selected as reserve for the Beijing Olympics. The same year, she took her first national senior title. In the 2009 World Championships at Antalya, she climbed her first international podium with a team silver medal after France was defeated in the final by Ukraine. The next season, Berder climbed her first podium in the World Cup with a bronze medal in the Orleans Grand Prix, hosted by her own club. France was defeated again by Ukraine in the 2010 World Championships at home in Paris, this time in the semi-finals. In the small final, they overcame the United States, weakened by the injury withdrawal of Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis, to earn the bronze medal.^[4] In 2011, Berder made her way to the final of the Orléans Grand Prix, where she was defeated by Zagunis.

In the 2013–14 season Berder won her first World Cup title in Antalya, defeating reigning Olympic champion Kim Ji-yeon along the way.^[5] She also earned her first medal in the European Championships with a team silver in Strasbourg. In the World Championships, she got to the table of 16, a personal best to date, but was stopped by Zagunis. In the team event, France defeated Hungary, then host Russia and Italy to meet the United States in the final. France stood their ground for most of the match, leading 20–15 at some point, before giving way in the seventh leg. They were eventually beaten 39–45.^[6] Berder finished the season 16th in world rankings, a personal best.

Berder is pursuing a master of journalism at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris.^[7]

Berder is competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She defeated Ibtihaj Muhammad in the second round.^[8]

Medal Record

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2009	Antalya, Turkey	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[10]
2010	Paris, France	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[11]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[12]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd^[13]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[14]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	3rd^[15]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Sabre	1st^[16]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[17]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2008	Kyiv, Ukraine	Team Women's Sabre	3rd^[18]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[19]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[20]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Women's Sabre	2nd^[21]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Women's Sabre	3rd^[22]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd^[23]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Women's Sabre	3rd^[24]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	3rd^[25]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
02/05/2010	Orléans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[26]
02/11/2011	Orléans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd^[27]
12/16/2016	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[28]
03/31/2017	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[29]
12/15/2017	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[30]
02/22/2019	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd^[31]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/14/2014	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Women's Sabre	1st^[32]
01/27/2017	New York, New York	Individual Women's Sabre	1st^[33]
01/25/2019	Salt Lake City, Utah	Individual Women's Sabre	1st^[34]
03/12/2021	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd^[35]

External links

• • • Profile at the European Fencing Confederation

Notes and References

1. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website. 2021-12-03. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website.
2. Web site: Cécilia Berder. Quimper l'a touchée au coeur. Gérard Classe. Le Télégramme. 19 August 2010. fr.
3. Web site: Cecilia Berder, joyau de l'escrime quimpéroise. Ouest France. 23 May 2013. fr.
4. Web site: Mondiaux d'escrime : la France sabre le champagne. AFP. 9 November 2010. fr.
5. Web site: Berder : " Je l'avais dans mon sabre ". Olivier Louarn. Le Télégramme. 16 March 2014. fr.
6. Web site: Chicago fencer Stone wins world team gold. Philip Hersh. The Chicago Tribune. 21 July 2014.
7. Web site: Quand Berder interroge Berder…. Mael Moizant . Le Télégramme. 6 June 2014. fr.
8. Web site: Ibtihaj Muhammad, first U.S. athlete to wear hijab at Olympics, eliminated during women’s sabre tournament . Stefan Bondy. New York Daily News. 10 August 2016.
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