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Enzo Lefort

{{short description|French foil fencer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox fencer

| name = Enzo Lefort

| fullname = Enzo Boris Lefort

| image = Enzo Lefort Challenge Revenu 2013.jpg

| caption = Lefort at the Challenge Revenu 2013

| country = France

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|9|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cayenne, Guiana, France

| height = 1.90 m

| weight = 75 kg

| weapon = Foil

| hand = Right-handed

| club = Club d'escrime Melun Val-de-Seine / INSEP

| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/22555 current ranking]

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Men's foil}}

{{Medal|Country|{{FRA}}}}

{{MedalOlympic}}

{{MedalGold|2020 Tokyo|Team}}

{{MedalSilver|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2024 Paris|Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Kazan|Team}}

{{MedalGold|2019 Budapest|Individual}}

{{Medal|Gold|2022 Cairo|Individual}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Budapest|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2013 Budapest|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2014 Kazan|Individual}}

{{MedalBronze|2017 Leipzig|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2022 Cairo|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2023 Milan|Individual}}

{{Medal|Competition|European Games}}

{{Medal|Silver|2023 Kraków–Małopolska|Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Strasbourg|Team}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Montreux|Team}}

{{MedalGold|2017 Tbilisi|Team}}

{{MedalGold|2019 Düsseldorf|Team}}

{{Medal|Gold|2024 Basel|Team}}

{{MedalSilver|2012 Legnano|Team}}

{{MedalSilver|2023 Plovdiv|Individual}}

{{Medal|Silver|2023 Kraków|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|2019 Düsseldorf|Individual}}

}}

Enzo Lefort (born 29 September 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer.{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/athletes/22555|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

Lefort is a four-time team European champion, 2014 team world champion, and two-time individual world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Lefort is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 2021 team Olympic champion.

Lefort competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career

{{Update section|date=June 2022|reason=2014–2019 need to be given more detail}}

Lefort was born in French Guiana. He discovered fencing when he was five, while watching fellow French Caribbean Laura Flessel win the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta.{{cite web|url=http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/Sport/Enzo-Lefort-la-nouvelle-pepite-de-l-escrime-tricolore-2014-07-16-1179673|title=Enzo Lefort, la nouvelle pépite de l'escrime tricolore|work=La Croix|author=Jean-Luc Ferré|date=16 July 2014}} He began fencing at CREPS in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, where he trained under Ruddy Plicoste along with Jean-Paul Tony Helissey and Ysaora Thibus.{{cite web|url=http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/Sport/Les-Antilles-font-toujours-le-bonheur-de-l-escrime-tricolore-2014-01-23-1095258|title=Les Antilles font toujours le bonheur de l'escrime tricolore|work=La Croix|author=Arnaud Bevilacqua|date=23 January 2014}} He later joined the centre for promising athletes in Châtenay-Malabry in metropolitan France.

Lefort won the French national championship in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil, but was defeated in the second round.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/athletes/e902733a-0887-40cf-9c1e-6238f21801a9|title=Enzo Lefort|work=BBC Sport|access-date=11 September 2012}} In the team event, France were defeated 39–45 against the United States in the quarter-finals. After the fencing section of the Lagardère Paris Racing was dissolved, Lefort joined the Cercle d'Escrime Melun Val de Seine.

In the 2013–14 season Lefort won the Challenge International de Paris, his first World Cup medal,{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/espace-premium/seine-et-marne-77/c-est-le-declic-je-crois-20-01-2014-3509871.php|title=Enzo Lefort : " C'est le déclic, je crois ! "|work=Le Parisien|date=20 January 2014}} and climbed the podium in Venice, Saint-Petersburg and Havana. In the European Championships at Strasbourg, Lefort was defeated in the second round by Denmark's Emil Ulrik Andersen. In the team event, France received a bye, then overcame the Czech Republic and Russia to meet Italy in the final. They prevailed 45–41 to earn the gold medal. A month later in the World Championships at Kazan, Lefort was seeded number two. He made his way to the quarter-finals, where he defeated reigning European champion James-Andrew Davis, but was defeated in the semi-final by Aleksey Cheremisinov of Russia and came away with a bronze medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Escrime/Actualites/Du-bronze-pour-lefort/483875|title=Du bronze pour Lefort|author=Patrick Issert|work=L'Équipe|date=19 July 2014}} In the team event, No.2 seeded France received a bye, then knocked out Hong Kong, Germany and hosts Russia to meet China in the Final. They beat China 45–25 to earn the gold medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Escrime/Actualites/Fleuret-les-bleus-sacres/484591|title=Fleuret : les Bleus sacrés|author=Patrick Issert|work=L'Équipe|date=22 July 2014}} Lefort finished the season No.2 in FIE rankings.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lefort competed in the Men's foil, being eliminated in the round of 32.{{Cite web |title=Fencing foil individual men Results |url=https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/rio-2016/results/fencing/foil-individual-men |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326032833/https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/fencing/foil-individual-men |archive-date=26 March 2017 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=Rio 2016}} In the team event, France were defeated 41-45 by Russia in the finals to earn a silver medal.{{Cite web |title=Fencing foil team men Results |url=https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/rio-2016/results/fencing/foil-team-men |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326032832mp_/https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/fencing/foil-team-men |archive-date=26 March 2017 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=Olympics.com}}

In 2017, he was the flag bearer for France at the World Military Championships.{{Cite web |title=Enzo Lefort profile – INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/athletes/22555 |access-date=3 June 2022 |website=FIE.org}}

At the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, he won gold in the individual men's foil.{{Cite web |title=2019 World Championship – INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/244 |access-date=3 June 2022 |website=FIE.org}} That year, he also won bronze in the European Championships.{{Cite web |title=2019 European Championships – INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/741 |access-date=3 June 2022 |website=FIE.org}}

=National Honours=

He was named a Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2016, and a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 2021.

Medal record

=Olympic Games=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2016

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2016/250?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2021

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2021/250|access-date=11 August 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2024

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris, France

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=https://fie.org/competitions/2024/244|access-date=21 November 2024|website=FIE.org}}

=World Championship=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2013

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2013/250?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/244|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/250?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2017

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Leipzig, Germany

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/250?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/244?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/250?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|EGY}} Cairo, Egypt

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2022/244 |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=FIE.org}}

2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|EGY}} Cairo, Egypt

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2022/250 |access-date=23 July 2022 |website=FIE.org}}

=European Championship=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2012

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Legnano, Italy

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2012/747?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Strasbourg, France

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/747?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2015

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|SUI}} Montreux, Switzerland

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/747?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2017

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GEO}} Tbilisi, Georgia

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/747?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Düsseldorf, Germany

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/741?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Düsseldorf, Germany

|Team Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/747?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

=Grand Prix=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Date

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2014-03-01

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} St. Petersburg, Russia

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/134?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014-03-15

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Venice, Italy

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/140?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2016-12-02

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Turin, Italy

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/134?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2017-12-01

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Turin, Italy

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/134?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

=World Cup=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Date

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2014-01-17

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris, France

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/135?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014-05-23

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CUB}} Havana, Cuba

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/147?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2014-11-07

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/137?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2015-01-16

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris, France

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/142?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2017-02-10

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Bonn, Germany

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/138?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2018-11-09

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Bonn, Germany

|Individual Men's Foil

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/135?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

2020-01-10

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris, France

|Individual Men's Foil

|bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2020/142?tab=results|access-date=20 April 2021|website=FIE.org}}

References

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External links

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  • {{Olympedia}}
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  • {{Team France}}
  • {{CNOSF}}

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