BOREL Yannick

Date of Birth: 5 Nov 1988

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: POINTE-A-PITRE

Birth Country:

France

Place of residence : PARIS

Residence Country:

France

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Épée Individual	17
	Men's Épée Team FRA France	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Green Piste	Men's Épée Individual Table of 32 #44 EGY ELSAYED MELSAYED Mohamed 15 FRA BOREL YBOREL Yannick 11	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Épée Team Quarterfinal 1 #9 FRA France 44 JPN Japan 45	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Men's Épée Team Classifications 5-8 #13 FRA France 45 SUI Switzerland 37	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Men's Épée Team Placement 5-6 #18 FRA France 45 UKR Ukraine 39	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5	1
2012	London, GBR	7	-

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	5	1
2018	Wuxi, CHN	1	4
2017	Leipzig, GER	33	1
2012	Kiev, UKR	-	2
2011	Catania, ITA	12	1

European Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Dusseldorf, GER	10	11
2018	Novi Sad, SRB	1	2
2017	Tbilisi, GEO	1	6

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 9th	1 x 7th
2019/2020	2 x 5th, 1 x 6th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th
2018/2019	1 x 17th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 12th
2017/2018	1 x 3rd, 1 x 9th, 1 x 17th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th
2016/2017	2 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 33rd	1 x 1st, 2 x 2nd, 1 x 4th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 2nd, 1 x 10th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 9th, 1 x 33rd
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 18th, 1 x 33rd
2016/2017	1 x 5th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 17th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
1	2017/2018	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Cali, COL
1	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
1	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
2	2019/2020	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
2	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
2	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2016/2017	Epee Individual	World Cup	Paris, FRA
2	2016/2017	Epee Individual	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Buenos Aires, ARG

Zlatan ["When I came to France we played a lot of football-tennis as well as football, and I would take things pretty seriously. As soon as I got the ball I always attacked, even when I wasn't really in a position to do so. So they started calling me 'Zlatan'."] (Facebook page, 05 Jun 2019; YouTube channel, 02 Feb 2019)

Playing video games, going to the cinema, fishing. (Facebook page, 14 May 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Customs Officer

Physical Education - National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance [INSEP], Paris, FRA

Wife Annia, son Andre, daughter Anelia [2017]

Languages spoken:

Levallois SC [France]

Stephane Le Roy, [national], FRA

Right (fie.ch, 2012)

2009 for France (Athlete, 03 Jul 2012)

He required surgery in August 2018 after injuring his right wrist. He required six months of rehabilitation, and returned to competition in January 2019. (lequipe.fr, 28 Jan 2019; escrime-ffe.fr, 28 Jan 2019)

He took up the sport in 1998 in Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. (Athlete, 03 Jul 2012)

He developed an interest in fencing after a demonstration at his school, and was also inspired by Zorro. "I wanted to do karate but there was no competition available so I decided to try fencing. I chose epee because it's more expressive than foil, where the referee is too present." (franceantilles.fr, 17 Mar 2012 )

To win an individual Olympic gold medal, and to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (lemonde.fr, 23 Jul 2018; eurosport.co.uk, 13 Apr 2020)

Winning gold in team epee at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, claiming three consecutive individual European titles from 2016 to 2018, and securing an individual world title in 2018. (lemonde.fr, 23 Jun 2019; fie.org, 14 Aug 2016)

French fencers Laura Flessel-Colovic, Fabrice Jeannet and Jerome Jeannet. (100-pour-cent-antilles.com, 05 Jan 2018; Athlete, 03 Jul 2012)

French fencer Ulrich Robeiri. (Athlete, 03 Jul 2012)

Philosophy:

"I've never really been afraid of other fencers, but I no longer tell myself that others are stronger than me. I tell myself that I am at their level, and that in any match anything can happen. In that respect, I'm not afraid of anyone, not even the Olympic, world or European champion." (sports.fr, 16 Mar 2012)

He was voted the French Fencing Federation's [FFE] male ambassador of French fencing for 2021. (la1ere.francetvinfo.fr, 08 Apr 2021)

He was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French president in 2016 following his gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (lequipe.fr, 23 Dec 2016)

He was France's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russian Federation. (sport-u.com, 26 Jun 2013)

General Interest

General
FROM GUADELOUPE TO FRANCE
He was born and raised in Guadeloupe, a French overseas region in the Caribbean. At age 15 he was invited by the then France national coach, Jerome Roussat, to join the national junior training centre in Reims, France. However, his parents refused the invitation and he had to wait until he had finished his high school studies in 2007 before he could leave Guadeloupe for France. In 2019 he launched the Yannick Borel Challenge, a youth fencing tournament in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. The male and female winner of the tournament each receive the opportunity to travel to Paris to take part in training with Borel. (Facebook page, 17 Apr 2019; 100-pour-cent-antilles.com, 05 Jan 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In August 2017 he became a member of the International Fencing Federation [FIE] Athletes' Commission. (fie.org, 04 Aug 2017)

OCCUPATION
He works for French customs [douanes] under a special contract for elite athletes that allows him to train and compete internationally. (Twitter profile, 20 Apr 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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