Enzo Lefort

Enzo Lefort (born 29 September 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer.

Enzo Lefort
Lefort at the Challenge Revenu 2013
Personal information
Full name	Enzo Boris Lefort
Born	(1991-09-29) 29 September 1991 Cayenne, France
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	Right-handed
Club	Club d'escrime Melun Val-de-Seine / INSEP
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's foil Representing France Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championships 2014 Kazan Team 2019 Budapest Individual 2022 Cairo Individual 2019 Budapest Team 2013 Budapest Team 2014 Kazan Individual 2017 Leipzig Team 2022 Cairo Team 2023 Milan Individual European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team European Championships 2014 Strasbourg Team 2015 Montreux Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2012 Legnano Team 2023 Plovdiv Individual 2023 Kraków Team 2019 Düsseldorf Individual

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

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. He began fencing at CREPS in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, where he trained under Ruddy Plicoste along with Jean-Paul Tony Helissey and Ysaora Thibus. 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. 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, 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. 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. Lefort finished the season No.2 in FIE rankings.

In 2017, he was the flag bearer for France at the World Military Championships.

At the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, he won gold in the individual men's foil. That year, he also won bronze in the European Championships.

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

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Foil	1st

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Foil	1st
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	1st
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team Men's Foil	3rd

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2012	Legnano, Italy	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	1st
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Foil	1st
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	1st
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2014-03-01	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2014-03-15	Venice, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2016-12-02	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2017-12-01	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2014-01-17	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st
2014-05-23	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2014-11-07	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2015-01-16	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2017-02-10	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2018-11-09	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2020-01-10	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd

External links

• Enzo Lefort at the International Fencing Federation
• Enzo Lefort at the European Fencing Confederation
• Enzo Lefort at Olympics.com
• Enzo Lefort at Olympedia
• Enzo Lefort at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
• Enzo Lefort at Team France (in French)