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TOKYO 2020 MEDALS FOR GBR WHEELCHAIR FENCING

Piers Gilliver strikes Gold in the Individual Cat A Epee, and Dimitri Coutya claims bronze in the Individual Cat B Epee, in the Tokyo Paralympic Games for Wheelchair Fencing. Oliver Lam-Watson joins them for an Epee team bronze.

Latest updates: August 27th, 2021: Piers and Dimitri welcomed teammate Oliver Lam-Watson onto the podium as the trio took bronze in the Men’s Epee team event, the first epee team medal since 1980.

Courtesy of British Disability Fencing:

Published on August 26, 2021

Piers and Dimitri will take their place on the podium in the Tokyo Paralympic Games for Wheelchair Fencing.

Piers is current World Champion & World No1 & World No2 in the Men’s Individual category A Epée & Sabre respectively. Tokyo 2020 is his second Paralympic Games having won a silver medal in the same event at Rio.  Piers beat Novosibirsk of the Russian Federation today and takes home the gold medal in the Individual category A Epée.

Dimitri is current World Champion & World No1 in the Men’s Individual category B Foil and Epée.  He brings with him a strong performance record including making his Paralympic debut at Rio 2016, where he progressed to the quarter-final stages in both the category B Foil and Epée events. Today Dimitri beat Pranevich of Belarus and secured the bronze medal in the Individual category B Epée.

Congratulations!