GORDON Shaul

Date of Birth: 11 Jul 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Place of birth: TEL AVIV

Birth Country:

Israel

Place of residence : MONTREAL, QC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Sabre Individual	25

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Men's Sabre Individual Table of 32 #39 IRI ABEDINI MABEDINI Mojtaba 15 CAN GORDON SGORDON Shaul 10	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	8	16
2018	Wuxi, CHN	25	10
2017	Leipzig, GER	68	14
2015	Moscow, RUS	84	13
2014	Kazan, RUS	54	17
2013	Budapest, HUN	61	11

Pan American Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Epee Team	Sabre Team
2019	Lima, PER	3	7	2

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Toronto, ON, CAN	5	2
2018	Havana, CUB	2	2
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	8	2

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

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	1 x 56th	-
2019/2020	1 x 47th, 1 x 59th	3 x 16th
2018/2019	1 x 15th	1 x 14th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 17th
2017/2018	1 x 15th	1 x 12th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 16th
2016/2017	1 x 30th	1 x 13th, 1 x 19th

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

Year	Sabre Individual
2018/2019	2 x 51st

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
12	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
13	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
14	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
15	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
15	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
15	2017/2018	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Gyor, HUN
15	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Gyor, HUN
16	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Luxembourg, LUX
16	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
16	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
16	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Sabre Individual	2018/2019	Reykjavik, ISL

Ice Daddy, Adachi (fencing.net, 23 Mar 2016; olympic.ca, 11 Jun 2015)

Reading, watching NBA basketball. (olympic.ca, 10 Aug 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Language Studies - French - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Partner Yana Botvinik

Languages spoken:

English, French, Hebrew, Italian

Dynamo Fencing Club [Richmond, BC, CAN]

Victor Gantsevich [national, club]

Right (fie.org, 27 Jun 2018)

Sporting relatives:

His younger sister Tamar has represented Israel in fencing at junior international level and won bronze in individual sabre at the 2020 European Cadet Championships in Porec, Croatia. His partner Yana Botvinik has also represented Israel in fencing and competed in individual and team epee at the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. His younger brother Mati is a member of the Israeli national rugby union team. (SportsDeskOnline, 10 May 2021; Mati Gordon Linkedin profile, 09 May 2021; jewishindependent.ca, 17 Mar 2021)

He began fencing at age seven in Turin, Italy. (richmond-news.com, 30 Mar 2021)

He tried judo, basketball and swimming before he began fencing. He decided to take up the sport after watching a Zorro cartoon. "I watched it every night. When I found out you could do that as a sport, I wanted to try it out." (YouTube, 14 Jun 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (richmond-news.com, 30 Mar 2021; vancourier.com, 19 Jun 2018)

In mid 2021, he was training at the National Institute of Sport of Quebec in Montreal, QC, Canada. (richmond-news.com, 30 Mar 2021; Instagram profile, 24 Jul 2020)

Philosophy:

"Good, better, best. Never let them rest. Until your good is better, and your better best." (olympic.ca, 11 Jun 2015)

General Interest

General
BREAK FROM FENCING
He decided against trying to win a place at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and took a break from the sport in 2015 to concentrate on his studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. "I felt I wasn't in the position to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro so decided to focus on my studies and preparing my application for law school at McGill University." (vancourier.com, 19 Jun 2018; richmond-news.com, 31 Aug 2017; pennathletics.com, 22 Apr 2015; University of Pennsylvania Facebook page, 09 Mar 2016)

FURTHER STUDIES
After beginning his French studies degree at Penn State University in State College, PA, United States of America, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after his freshman year and graduated from there in 2016. He then studied law at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada, where he also began a master's degree in law in 2019, specialising in air and space law. In addition, he has spent semesters studying at Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jun 2019; richmond-news.com, 31 Aug 2017)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In Canada, he has worked as a legal assistant and as a researcher of space satellite communications. In 2013 he also worked for three months as a first responder in Jerusalem, Israel. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jun 2019)

FROM ISRAEL TO CANADA
Born in Tel Aviv in Israel, at age four he moved with his family to Turin in Italy. At age 10 he and his family then moved to Richmond, BC, Canada. He holds both a Canadian passport and an Israeli passport. (jewishindependent.ca, 17 Mar 2021)

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Legend

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

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