Ysaora Thibus Explained

Ysaora Thibus
Nationality:French
Birth Date:22 August 1991
Birth Place:Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height:1.74 m
Weight:56 kg
Country:France
Weapon:Foil
Club:AS Bourg-la-Reine[1]
Fieranking:current ranking

Ysaora Jennifer Thibus (born 22 August 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2020 team Olympic silver medalist.[2]

Biography

Ysaora Thibus is studying at the ESCP Business School. In 2013, she received the Bernard Destremau Prize from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, which rewards a high-level athlete who combines competition and higher education.[3]

Thibus took up fencing at the age of 7 in Guadeloupe. At 17, she moved to France to train with the French national youth team in Aix-en-Provence, joining the senior training team in Paris a year later.[4]

Thibus competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games.[5] In 2016, after winning her first team bronze medal at the Rio Worlds in April,[6] she participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

She reached her first individual world podium in 2017 in Leipzig with a third place, then in 2018 in Wuxi where she lost 12–15 in the final to Alice Volpi.[7]

In 2021, she won a silver medal in the team foil event with Anita Blaze, Astrid Guyart and Pauline Ranvier at the Tokyo Olympic Games,[8] losing in the final to the Russian team.[9] Beaten in the second round in individual, she said she was "psychologically exhausted" after the Olympic competition and stopped training for four months.[10]

Thibus founded the EssentiElle program for women athletes, which aims to amplify their voices within the world of athletics.[11]

Thibus and American foil fencer Race Imboden met at a party after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and began dating shortly afterward. The couple became engaged at Le Pigalle, a hotel in Paris, after the Tokyo Olympic Games.[12]

Thibus was suspended on February 8, 2024, after testing positive for ostarine, a banned substance.[13] She said that her positive doping test was due to "sexual contact" with her fiancé, former Olympic fencer Race Imboden. She appealed her suspension by asserting she was unknowingly contaminated through an exchange of "bodily fluids".[13] On May 21, 2024, she sent out the news that she was cleared from doping charges and was back on track towards competing in the Paris Olympic Games.[14] In August 2024, she competed in the women's individual foil and the team foil events during the Paris Olympics.[15]

Medal record

World Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2013 Budapest, HungaryTeam Women's Foil2nd[17]
2014 Kazan, RussiaTeam Women's Foil3rd[18]
2015 Moscow, RussiaTeam Women's Foil3rd[19]
2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTeam Women's Foil3rd[20]
2017 Leipzig, GermanyIndividual Women's Foil3rd[21]
2018 Wuxi, ChinaIndividual Women's Foil2nd[22]
2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Women's Foil3rd[23]
2022 Cairo, EgyptIndividual Women's Foil1st[24]

European Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2012 Legnano, ItalyTeam Women's Foil2nd[25]
2013 Zagreb, CroatiaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[26]
2013 Zagreb, CroatiaTeam Women's Foil2nd[27]
2014 Strasbourg, FranceTeam Women's Foil3rd[28]
2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandTeam Women's Foil3rd[29]
2016 Toruń, PolandTeam Women's Foil3rd[30]
2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[31]
2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Women's Foil3rd[32]
2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyIndividual Women's Foil3rd[33]
2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Women's Foil2nd[34]

Grand Prix

DateLocationEventPosition
2015-03-13 Havana, CubaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[35]
2016-06-03 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[36]
2017-05-19 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[37]
2020-02-07 Turin, ItalyIndividual Women's Foil1st[38]
2021-03-26 Doha, QatarIndividual Women's Foil3rd[39]

World Cup

DateLocationEventPosition
2013-02-08 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Foil3rd[40]
2013-03-01 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[41]
2014-05-02 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual Women's Foil3rd[42]
2015-01-16 Gdańsk, PolandIndividual Women's Foil3rd[43]
2015-10-16 Cancún, MexicoIndividual Women's Foil1st[44]
2017-01-13 Algier, AlgeriaIndividual Women's Foil1st[45]
2019-01-25 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, FranceIndividual Women's Foil3rd[46]
2019-05-03 Tauberbischofsheim, GermanyIndividual Women's Foil3rd[47]
2019-11-22 Cairo, EgyptIndividual Women's Foil3rd[48]
2020-01-10 Katowice, PolandIndividual Women's Foil3rd[49]

Awards

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website . 6 May 2021 . INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
  3. Web site: Ysaora Thibus chevalière de l'ordre du mérite . 12 October 2022 . Outre-mer la 1ère . 16 March 2022 . fr-FR.
  4. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – Ysaora Thibus profile . 8 November 2021 . INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
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  6. Web site: 28 April 2016 . Championnats du monde d'escrime par équipe de Rio : l'heure du bilan . 12 October 2022 . Eurosport . fr.
  7. News: 23 July 2018 . Escrime. Ysaora Thibus est vice-championne du monde de fleuret . Ouest-France .
  8. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website . 6 May 2021 . INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
  9. Web site: Les fleurettistes françaises médaillées d'argent des JO de Tokyo après leur défaite contre la Russie en finale . 12 October 2022 . L'Équipe . fr.
  10. Web site: 19 July 2022 . Champions du monde au Caire : Ysaora Thibus – Romain Cannone, chemins croisés, destins dorés . 12 October 2022 . Eurosport . fr.
  11. Web site: Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus: 'I'm an athlete, but first I'm a woman, I'm a Black woman'. 22 October 2020 . 22 October 2020. CNN.
  12. Web site: Olympic Fencers Race Imboden and Ysaora Thibus Are Engaged! All About His Creative Proposal. 14 September 2021. People. en.
  13. Web site: World champion fencer blames failed drug test on 'sexual contact' with Olympian hubby | Calgary Sun.
  14. Web site: Associated Press . 21 May 2024 . Ysaora Thibus says she has been cleared of doping ban . 22 May 2024 . ESPN.
  15. Web site: Ysaora Thibus NBC Olympics . 2024-08-08 . www.nbcolympics.com . en.
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