World's Best Fencers Right Now
Elite foil, epee, and sabre fencers from the current world scene, anchored by recent Olympic champions, 2025 world champions, and top World Cup-era contenders.
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Cheung Ka Long
Two-time Olympic foil champion · Men's foil
Edgar Cheung Ka Long is a Hong Kong left-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympic champion and two-time individual Asian champion, having won the gold medal at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Tommaso Marini
World champion foil fencer · Men's foil
Tommaso Marini is an Italian right-handed foil fencer. He is a three-time team European champion and two-time team World champion.
Lee Kiefer
Three-time Olympic champion foil fencer · Women's foil
Lee Kiefer is an American right-handed foil fencer, three-time Olympic champion in women's foil, having won the individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the individual and team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics and World champion in women's foil, having won the individual and team event at the 2025 World Championships and team events at the 2018 World Championships.
Alice Volpi
World champion foil fencer · Women's foil
Alice Volpi is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, two-time team European champion, 2017 team world champion, 2018 and 2023 individual world champion, and 2020 team Olympic bronze medalist.
Arianna Errigo
Olympic and world champion foil fencer · Women's foil
Arianna Errigo is an Italian left-handed foil and sabre fencer.
Gergely Siklósi
World champion and Olympic medalist epee fencer · Men's epee
Gergely Siklósi is a Hungarian right-handed épée fencer, 2019 individual world champion, and 2021 individual Olympic silver medalist.
Yannick Borel
Olympic and world champion epee fencer · Men's epee
Yannick Borel is a French right-handed épée fencer.
Romain Cannone
Olympic champion epee fencer · Men's epee
Romain Cannone is a French right-handed épée fencer, 2022 team world champion, 2022 individual world champion, and 2021 individual Olympic champion.
Masaru Yamada
World and Olympic medalist epee fencer · Men's epee
Masaru Yamada is a Japanese right-handed épée fencer, 2016 team Asian champion, 2019 individual Asian champion, and 2021 team Olympic champion.
Auriane Mallo-Breton
Olympic medalist epee fencer · Women's epee
Auriane Mallo-Breton is a French left-handed épée fencer. She earned two silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics and is a three-time team European champion.
Marie-Florence Candassamy
World champion epee fencer · Women's epee
Marie-Florence Candassamy is a French right-handed épée fencer, 2023 World champion, 2022 team European champion, and 2024 Olympic silver medalist.
Rossella Fiamingo
Olympic and world champion epee fencer · Women's epee
Rossella Fiamingo is an Italian left-handed épée fencer and two-time individual world champion. A three-time Olympian, Fiamingo is a 2021 and 2024 team Olympic bronze and Gold, respectively, medalist and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.
Sun Yiwen
Olympic champion epee fencer · Women's epee
Sun Yiwen is a Chinese left-handed épée fencer. Sun is a three-time team Asian champion and two-time team world champion.
Sandro Bazadze
World champion sabre fencer · Men's sabre
Sandro Bazadze is a Georgian right-handed sabre fencer. He is the 2023 and 2022 individual European champion, and a three-time Olympian.
Oh Sang-uk
Olympic and world champion sabre fencer · Men's sabre
Oh Sang-uk is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.
Jean-Philippe Patrice
World medalist sabre fencer · Men's sabre
Jean-Philippe Patrice is a French fencer. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the men's team sabre.
Áron Szilágyi
Three-time Olympic champion sabre fencer · Men's sabre
Áron Szilágyi is a Hungarian right-handed sabre fencer. A five-time Olympian, Szilágyi is a three-time individual Olympic champion, 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist, and 2024 team Olympic silver medalist.
Ziad El-Sissy
Olympic and world-level sabre contender · Men's sabre
Ziad El-Sissy is an Egyptian fencer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual sabre event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria. He represented Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Eli Dershwitz
World champion sabre fencer · Men's sabre
Eli Dershwitz is an American left-handed saber fencer, five-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympian, and the 2023 saber World Champion.
Manon Brunet
Olympic champion sabre fencer · Women's sabre
Manon Apithy-Brunet is a French right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympian, 2021 team Olympic silver medalist, and 2021 individual Olympic bronze medalist.
Sara Balzer
Olympic medalist and former world number one sabre fencer · Women's sabre
Sara Balzer is a French left-handed sabre fencer. She won two Olympic silver medals, the first at the 2021 team event, and the second on home soil at the 2024 individual event. She has been ranked #1 in the world in women's sabre in 2022–2023 and 2023–2024.
Misaki Emura
Two-time world champion sabre fencer · Women's sabre
Misaki Emura is a Japanese fencer. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's sabre event at the World Fencing Championships. She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2024 Asian Fencing Championships held in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Olga Kharlan
Olympic and world champion sabre fencer · Women's sabre
Olha Hennadiivna Kharlan, also known as Olga Kharlan, is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is a four-time individual women's world sabre champion, six-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated Ukrainian Olympian in history.
Theodora Gkountoura
World medalist sabre fencer · Women's sabre
Theodora Gkountoura is a Greek sabre fencer.