Vincent Simon (fencer)
{{Short description|French fencer (born 1990)}}
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| nickname = Bouli
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|4|9|df=yes}}
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| weight = {{convert|78|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}
| weapon = Foil
| hand = left-handed
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| club = CE Rueil-Malmaison
| natlcoach = Franck Boidin
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| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/21926 current ranking]
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Kazan|Team Foil}}
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{{MedalGold|2014 Strasbourg|Team Foil}}
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Vincent Simon (born 9 April 1990) is a French foil fencer, team European and team World champion in 2014.
Career
Simon took up fencing at the age of seven and trained at UJB Escrime in Saint-Dizier under Jérôme Roussat, Charles Roselet and Sylvain Privé. He joined in 2007 the centre for promising young fencers in Châtenay-Malabry and won a team bronze medal at the 2008 Junior World Championships in Acireale. He took part in the 2013 Summer Universiade, reaching the quarter-finals in the individual event and taking a bronze medal with the team.{{cite web|url=https://fr.sports.yahoo.com/news/universiades-26-m%C3%A9dailles-dont-5-182606277.html|title=Universiades 26 médailles dont 5 en or|work=Yahoo! Sport|date=17 July 2013|language=fr}}
He made his breakthrough in the 2013–14 season, reaching the quarter-finals at the La Coruña Grand Prix,{{cite web|url=http://pianetascherma.com/2014/02/22/fioretto-maschile-coppa-del-mondo-la-coruna/|title=Niente festa a La Coruna|author=Alessandro Gennari|newspaper=Pianeta Scherma|date=22 February 2014|language=it}} the Havana Grand Prix{{cite web|url=http://pianetascherma.com/2014/05/24/cuba-fioretto-maschile-la-havana/|title=A Cuba è festa russa|author=Alessandro Gennari|newspaper=Pianeta Scherma|date=24 May 2014|language=it}} and the Tokyo World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/informations/-05-05-2014-3815557.php|title=Actualités Hauts-de-Seine–Escrime|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=5 May 2014|language=fr}} He was selected into the national for the European Championships in Strasbourg, but he lost in the first round to teammate Julien Mertine in the individual event. In the team event France defeated the Czech Republic and Russia before prevailing over Italy, allowing Simon to win his first gold medal in a major event.{{cite web|url=http://www.dna.fr/sports/2014/06/14/quatre-garcons-en-or|title=Quatre garçons en or|author=Christine Lapp|newspaper=Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace|date=14 June 2014|language=fr}} At the World Championships in Kazan he defeated World No.7 Alexander Massialas before ceding in the table of 16 to Alexander Choupenitch of the Czech Republic.{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Escrime/Actualites/Lefort-en-quarts/483810|title=Enzo Lefort en quarts|newspaper=L'Équipe|date=20 July 2014|language=fr}} In the team event France defeated Russia in the semi-finals and proceeded to crush China to earn the world title.{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Escrime/Actualites/Fleuret-les-bleus-sacres/484591|title=Les Bleus sacrés|author=Patrick Issert|newspaper=L'Équipe|date=22 July 2014|language=fr}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Vincent Simon}}
- [http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/vincent-simon/results Profile] at the European Fencing Championships
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Category:French male foil fencers
Category:Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for France
Category:European Games competitors for France
Category:Fencers at the 2015 European Games