Dimitri Coutya

{{short description|British wheelchair fencer}}

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{{Use British English|date= August 2021}}

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| birth_place = London, England{{cite web |title=ParalympicsGB {{!}} Paralympicsgb announces wheelchair fencing squad for paris 2024 paralympic games |url=https://paralympics.org.uk/articles/paralympicsgb-announces-wheelchair-fencing-squad-for-paris-2 |website=ParalympicsGB |access-date=6 September 2024 |language=en}}

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| club = University of Bath

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{{MedalCompetition|IWAS European Championships}}

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Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997){{cite web | url=https://paralympics.org.uk/athletes/dimitri-coutya | title=ParalympicsGB | Dimitri coutya }} is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Epee at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won a team silver, a team bronze and two individual bronze medals for Great Britain in Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/wheelchair-fencing/athlete-profile-n1705741-coutya-dimitri.htm|title=Wheelchair Fencing|access-date=6 September 2021|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906200402/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/wheelchair-fencing/athlete-profile-n1705741-coutya-dimitri.htm|url-status=dead}}

Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 80 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR. He is the first British Parafencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).

After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Coutya won two world championships golds in Rome 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/41927600|title = Britain's Coutya wins two world titles|work = BBC Sport}} He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/45582393|title = Coutya wins wheelchair fencing gold|work = BBC Sport}} At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Coutya won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/49734249|title = British duo win gold & silver at Worlds|work = BBC Sport}}

During the preparations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Coutya won 7 European Titles, World Championship Bronze and Silver medals, and his first European Sabre medal, a Silver in the Paris 2024 European Championship.

For several years Coutya has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.

On 3 July 2024, Coutya became the first British Fencing athlete to be selected for the Paralympics, to fence in all three individual weapons (Sabre, Foil and Epee).

In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964.