Daryl Homer
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July 16, 1990 Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands |
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| Weapon(s) | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daryl Homer (born July 16, 1990) is an American Olympic saber fencer.
He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in individual saber at the 2016 Olympics. He was also a silver medalist at the 2015 World Fencing Championships, and is a five-time gold medalist at the Pan American Fencing Championships.
Homer was born on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands to Juliette Smith and Daryl Homer. At the age of 5, Homer moved to New York City with his mother and younger sister D’Meca, to an apartment on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx. While there, Homer attended Public School 21, transferred to Friends Seminary after receiving a scholarship, and eventually graduated from St. John’s University with a degree in advertising communications. He now works for advertising and marketing agency Anomaly.
Homer regularly speaks to inner city youth about balancing his career with his athletic passions. He is a brand ambassador at Fencing in the Schools, a non-profit that aims to enrich the lives of students in the inner city through fencing. The program focuses on the health benefits, life skills, and exposure fencing can give to students in some of the most impoverished neighborhoods. The program has trained teachers in Utah, Chicago, Newark, New York City, and Vermont. One of his cousins is Jonathan Homer and Dave Samson.
Homer started fencing at the age of eleven, after happening on a picture of a masked fencer in the dictionary, and finding it "very cool". He joined the Peter Westbrook Foundation in New York City, a program dedicated to exposing inner city youth to fencing started by six-time Olympian and 1984 Olympic bronze medalist Peter Westbrook. Homer chose saber because Westbrook himself had been a sabreur.
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