USA Fencing has completed its roster for the Paris Olympics. Name the last five players He joined the team on Wednesday, bringing the total number of fencers to 20.
The last athletes to qualify will be the fourth-ranked athletes in men’s and women’s foil, saber, and women’s épée, and will only be eligible to compete in the team event.
Miles Chumley-Watson (men’s foil)
Filip Drejwicz (Men’s Saber)
Maia Weintraub (women’s foil)
Maia Chamberlain (women’s saber)
Kat Holmes (women’s epee)
they join first 15 fencers who have qualified in the past Tokyo Olympic women’s foil gold medalist Lee Kiefer and current men’s saber world champion Eli Derschwitz will lead both the individual and team events.
Of the five players remaining, 34-year-old Chumley Watson will be the oldest member of the team. Chumley Watson, the 2013 individual world champion and 2016 Olympic team bronze medalist, returns after failing to qualify for Tokyo.
The U.S. men’s foil team includes three of the top nine players in the world rankings: No. 1 Nick Itkin, No. 5 Alexander Masilas and No. 9 Gerek Meinhardt. Chumley Watson is ranked 21st in the world.
Holmes. The 30-year-old helped his epee team finish fifth in Rio and Tokyo, qualifying for his third Olympics.
Dregiewicz won the 2022 NCAA title at Harvard. Chamberlain and Weintraub were teammates at Princeton and were both NCAA champions. All three are first-time Olympians.
The Paris Games will be the first Olympics since Sydney in 2000 without 2004 and 2008 Olympic women’s saber champion Mariel Zagunis. Zagunis, 36, took a break from international competition after fencing at the Tokyo Games.
The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team roster will be updated as they qualify.
