Inès Boubakri Explained

Birth Date:28 December 1988
Birth Place:Tunis, Tunisia
Height:1.67 m
Weight:56 kg
Weapon:Foil
Hand:left-handed
Club:Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine
Headcoach:Yann Detienne
Fieranking:current ranking
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Inès Boubakri (Arabic: إيناس بوبكري; born 28 December 1988) is a Tunisian foil fencer.[1] [2] 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.[2]

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. 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Ines Boubakri. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230708/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/ines-boubakri-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 10 January 2013.
  2. Web site: Ines Boubakri. London 2012. 9 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130402104117/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/boubakri-ines-1044796/. 2 April 2013.
  3. Web site: Boubakri, Ines . rio2016.com . 25 October 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161126020220/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/ines-boubakri . 26 November 2016 .
  4. Web site: Women's Individual Foil – Round of 64 . . 10 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120820214442/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DFEW001600/index.html . 20 August 2012 .
  5. News: Staff. Lochte captures first U.S. gold; China nets four. CNN. 29 July 2012. 10 January 2013.
  6. Web site: Women's Individual Foil – Quarterfinals. London 2012. 10 January 2013. 16 February 2013. https://archive.today/20130216095600/http://www.london2012.com/fencing/event/women-foil/match=few001304/index.html. dead.
  7. News: Triple Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali survived a close quarterfinal match. FIE. 10 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120831220216/http://www.fie.org/en/news/triple-olympic-champion-valentina-vezzali-survived-a-close-quarterfinal-match-0-2467. 31 August 2012.
  8. News: Fencing-Five to watch at the Tokyo Olympics . 15 July 2021 . Reuters . 22 June 2021.
  9. Web site: Ines Boubakri wins bronze. nbcolympics.com. 25 October 2016. 26 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161026001817/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/around-piste-womens-individual-foil-competition. dead.
  10. Web site: Fencing BOUBAKRI Ines. dead. 2021-08-17. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. en-us. 2021-07-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20210726070617/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/fencing/athlete-profile-n1436400-boubakri-ines.htm.
  11. Web site: Il fiorettista francese Erwann Le Pechoux ha sposato oggi la collega tunisina Ines Boubakri, bronzo mondiale a Kazan. Pianeta Scherma. 2 August 2014.
  12. Web site: Olympic Pair. rfi.fr. 25 October 2016.