FERJANI Fares

Date of Birth: 22 Jul 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Olympic ScholarshipYouth Olympian

Place of birth: TUNIS

Birth Country:

Tunisia

Place of residence : NEW YORK, NY

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Sabre Individual	22

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Green Piste	Men's Sabre Individual Table of 32 #42 ITA BERRE' EBERRE' Enrico 15 TUN FERJANI FFERJANI Fares 10	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	25

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2014	Nanjing, CHN	4

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2019	Budapest, HUN	19
2018	Wuxi, CHN	8
2017	Leipzig, GER	36
2015	Moscow, RUS	88

African Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Sale, MAR	1	2

African Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Bamako, MLI	2	2
2018	Tunis, TUN	1	2
2017	Alexandria, EGY	1	1

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

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	1 x 10th	1 x 23rd
2019/2020	1 x 3rd, 1 x 10th, 1 x 18th	-
2018/2019	1 x 10th, 1 x 11th, 1 x 35th	1 x 13th, 1 x 19th
2017/2018	1 x 22nd, 1 x 29th, 1 x 39th	1 x 22nd
2016/2017	1 x 42nd	-

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

Year	Sabre Individual
2019/2020	1 x 35th
2018/2019	1 x 11th, 1 x 17th, 1 x 34th
2017/2018	1 x 35th

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
3	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
10	2020/2021	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
10	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Luxembourg, LUX
10	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
11	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	Grand Prix	Moscow, RUS
11	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
13	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
17	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	Grand Prix	Seoul, KOR
18	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
19	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	19

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Finance - St. John's University, New York, NY, USA

Languages spoken:

Arabic, English, French

St. John's University [New York, NY, USA]

Yury Gelman [club], UKR

Right (fie.org, 07 Jun 2018)

Sporting relatives:

His older brother Mohamed Ayoub has represented Tunisia in fencing, and competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. His father Salah has refereed the sport at international level, while his mother, his uncle, and his cousin have all competed in the sport at an elite level. (FIE YouTube channel, 18 Nov 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 23 Jun 2017; china.org.cn, 14 Aug 2014; eurofencing.info, 03 Apr 2013)

"Why do I like fencing? All my family is in fencing. It's like water to me." (china.org.cn, 14 Aug 2014)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympic.org, 19 Oct 2020)

Italian fencer Aldo Montano. (olympic.org, 19 Oct 2020)

Philosophy:

"Our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." (Facebook profile, 14 Jun 2017)

He received the 2019 Giorgio Santelli award for fencing from St. John's University in the United States of America. (Instagram profile, 07 May 2019)

He was named Second Team All-American in the 2017/18 season as a student athlete at St. John's University in the United States of America. (redstormsports.com, 01 Jun 2019)

General Interest

General
OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
Two years after placing fourth in individual sabre at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games [YOG] in Nanjing, People's Republic of China, he made his senior Olympic debut at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. "I met a lot of amazing people [in Nanjing] and made some friends that I'm still speaking with to this day [talking in 2020]. And I remember being invited to a breakfast with some other YOG athletes and IOC president [and German fencer] Thomas Bach, when he told me something very nice. He said, 'You have talent, and I think you have a nice future.' That was interesting for me, to have an Olympic champion in fencing like him telling me that I have a good future, and I was very happy about it. I think any small words from any big champion can help a young athlete. If you say one or two nice words to them, it can change their lives. The 2016 Olympic Games were very fun for me. I fenced against a role model of mine, [Italy's four-time Olympic medallist] Aldo Montano, and I was very proud of myself that I showed some qualities. I was young and I really didn't know what I was doing, to be honest. I had no great technique and I was just enjoying myself. I was very happy with 2016 and I hope 2021 [in Tokyo] will be more serious." (olympic.org, 19 Oct 2020)

STUDYING IN THE US
In 2020 he began studying for a master's degree in international business at St. John's University in New York, NY, United States of America. Three years earlier he started a bachelor's in finance at the same university and began training with coach Yury Gelman. "After the 2016 Olympic Games I spoke with Yury Gelman, and then I moved to New York. I started studying at St. John's, and then it was a big difference. The practice was different. These guys do a lot of footwork. Everything counts, each detail counts. I think for me, it's just great that I moved there because I've jumped to another level, and I still need to jump to another level." (LinkedIn profile, 08 Sep 2020; FIE YouTube channel, 18 Nov 2019)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
He is a USA Fencing certified referee. (member.usafencing.org, 12 Mar 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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