Carole Vergne

{{short description|French fencer}}

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| birth_place = Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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| sport = Fencing

| event = Sabre

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| club = Lagardère Paris Racing

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| coach = Pierre Guichot (national)
Morgan Fraboulet (personal)

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{{MedalSport | Women's fencing}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Saint Petersburg|Team sabre}}

{{MedalSilver|2009 Antalya|Team sabre}}

{{MedalBronze|2009 Antalya|Sabre}}

{{MedalBronze|2010 Paris|Team sabre}}

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Carole Vergne (born August 7, 1985, in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French sabre fencer.{{cite sports-reference|title = Carole Vergne|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/carole-vergne-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417194935/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/carole-vergne-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 20 January 2013}} She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the same weapon at the 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey.{{cite news|title=Escrime : le bronze pour Carole Vergne aux Mondiaux|trans-title=Fencing: World bronze medal for Carole Vergne|language=French|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2009/10/03/escrime-le-bronze-pour-carole-vergne-aux-mondiaux_1249048_3242.html|publisher=Le Monde France|date=3 October 2009|accessdate=20 January 2013}}{{cite news|title=Sabre : Carole Vergne décroche le bronze|trans-title=Sabre: Carole Vergne wins bronze|language=French|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/sports/autres/sabre-carole-vergne-decroche-le-bronze-03-10-2009-661605.php|publisher=Le Parisien|date=3 October 2009|accessdate=20 January 2013}}

Vergne represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Vergne received a bye for the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out to South Korea's Kim Keum-Hwa, with a sudden death score of 14–15.{{cite web|title=Women's Individual Sabre – Round of 32 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc=FEW003500/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=20 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820213957/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DFEW003500/index.html |archivedate=20 August 2012 }} Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Solenn Mary, Léonore Perrus, and Anne-Lise Touya for the women's team sabre. Vergne and her team, however, lost the bronze medal match to the U.S. team (led by Mariel Zagunis), with a total score of 38 touches.{{cite web|title=Women's Team Sabre – Bronze Medal Match Official |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc=FEW403100/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=20 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820214759/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/fencing/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DFEW403100/index.html |archivedate=20 August 2012 }}