USA Fencing

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — With the iconic Grand Palais set as the backdrop, USA Fencing is proud to unveil the roster of 20 fencers who will represent the United States at the upcoming Olympic Games Paris 2024. 

The exciting roster includes a remarkable mix of both seasoned Olympians and promising newcomers, all primed to compete on the world’s grandest stage.

Team USA is sending five fencing squads to the Olympics: Women’s Epee, Women’s Foil, Men’s Foil, Women’s Saber and Men’s Saber.

Each squad includes:

• Three athletes who compete in both the individual and team events.

• One “replacement athlete” who can be subbed in for the team event only. That substitution, once made, is permanent (meaning the subbed out fencer can’t come back in). The substitution can be made for any reason at the coach’s discretion.

These athletes have clinched their spots on the Olympic team through strong performances at domestic and international tournaments throughout the qualification window, accumulating points based on their finishing positions.

The top three finishers compete in individual and team; the fourth-place finisher is the “replacement athlete.

• Veterans and newcomers: The group includes 12 first-time and eight returning Olympians.

• NCAA student-athletes: All 20 Team USA fencers have NCAA fencing ties. Eighteen fenced at the NCAA level before graduating, while the other two are high school seniors committed to NCAA fencing programs this fall.

• The seasoned pros: Men’s Foil is our most experienced squad. Including Paris 2024, the group has a combined 14 Olympic Games between them: Meinhardt (5th Olympics) Massialas (4th), Chamley-Watson (3rd) and Itkin (2nd).

• The all-Harvard team: All four members of the Men’s Saber squad come from Harvard, including three graduates plus Colin Heathcock, who has committed to attend Harvard this fall.

• Ivy League representation: Thirteen fencers competed (or will compete) for Ivy League schools.

• Top NCAA schools: The most-represented schools are Harvard (six), Princeton (five) and Notre Dame (four)

Wheelchair fencing/parfafencing qualification continues through May 31, 2024, and we’ll announce our qualifiers at that time. (You can track how we’re doing here.)

Team USA’s squad for the Olympics includes these NCAA Fencing Individual Champions:

• Anne Cebula (2019, Columbia/Barnard)

• Maia Chamberlain (2018, Princeton)

• Eli Dershwitz (2017, 2018, Harvard)

• Filip Dolegiewicz (2022, Harvard)

• Margherita Guzzi Vincenti (2010, Penn State)

• Nick Itkin (2018, 2019, Notre Dame)

• Lee Kiefer (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, Notre Dame)

• Alexander Massialas (2013, 2015, Stanford)

• Gerek Meinhardt (2010, 2014, Notre Dame)

• Lauren Scruggs (2023, Harvard)

• Elizabeth Tartakovsky (2022, Harvard)

• Maia Weintraub (2022, Princeton)

Athletes are listed in qualification order.

Women's Epee

National coach: Natalie Dostert; National assistant coach Cedric Loiseau

Women's Foil

National coach: Ralf Bissdorf

Men's Foil

National coach: Greg Massialas

Women's Saber

National coach: Aleks Ochocki

Men's Saber

National coach: Akhi Spencer-El