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Eli Dershwitz

Eli Dershwitz
Eli Dershwitz 2015 WCh SMS-IN t122900.jpg
Personal information
Born (1995-09-23) September 23, 1995 (age 21)
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Residence Sherborn, Massachusetts
Training location Natick, Massachusetts
Weapon(s) saber
Hand left-handed
Height 1.8034 m (5 ft 11.00 in)
Weight 72.1 kg (159 lb)
Club Zeta Fencing
Head coach(es) Zoran Tulum
FIE Ranking 12
Domestic Ranking 1

Eli Dershwitz (born September 23, 1995) is an American Olympic saber fencer.

He was ranked #1 in the United States, and #10 in the world, as of the summer of 2016. He is the youngest saber fencer among the world’s top 25. Dershwitz represented the US in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and will return to Harvard University as a sophomore.

In 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Championship, becoming the youngest-ever US senior men's saber champion. Dershwitz then won the 2015 Junior World Fencing Championships in saber, becoming the first American men's saber fencer to win a world title. He is a four-time Pan-American Champion, and the 2015 Pan American Games champion in saber.

Dershwitz was born and raised in Sherborn, Massachusetts. He has an older brother named Phil Dershwitz, whose recruitment to the Princeton University fencing team marked the last time Harvard fencing made the top 3 at the NCAA championships. He also has a twin sister named Sally.

Dershwitz played basketball and soccer up until the end of middle school. He attended Dover-Sherborn High School, graduating in 2014.

He is a student at Harvard University, where he is majoring in history. He is a member of the varsity Harvard Crimson fencing team. As a freshman in 2014-15, he was a First Team All-American, All-Ivy League, and finished third at the NCAA Fencing Championships with a 22-2 record. He was the seventh Harvard fencer to compete in the Olympics, with the prior two having been Emily Cross '09 (Team USA) and Noam Mills '12 (Israel), who both competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Dershwitz took off the 2015–16 school year to train full-time for the Olympics.


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