BERTHIER Amita

General
BASED IN THE USA
In January 2017 she relocated to the United States of America to join her long-time coach, Ralf Bissdorf, who had left Singapore to work at the Marx Fencing Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. In September 2018 she began studying at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. (1 Play Sports Facebook page, 19 Apr 2020; straitstimes.com, 13 Jan 2018; straitstimes.com, 03 Sep 2017; todayonline.com, 04 Apr 2017)

TRAINING FOR TOKYO
In June 2019 she decided to take a gap year from her studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States of America, to focus on qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She was training at Bluegrass Fencers' Club in Lexington, Kentucky, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit she decided to return to Singapore. "Of course I was a bit disappointed as the [Olympic Games] qualifiers were really close and I had been working real hard for it. I took the year off from school to try and qualify. With this extra time, we are going to take it as an opportunity to further better ourselves for the Games. It is going to be a historic Olympic Games, and we will go at it with all we got." (channelnewsasia.com, 27 Mar 2020; straitstimes.com, 26 Mar 2020)

In 2021 she became the first Singaporean to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] team championship in fencing. (straitstimes.com, 05 Apr 2021)

She became the first Singaporean foil fencer to win a Junior World Cup event by securing victory in 2017 in Havana, Cuba. (straitstimes.com, 17 Dec 2017)