Mariel Zagunis
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| Full name | Mariel Leigh Zagunis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
March 3, 1985 Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Weapon(s) | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2000–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oregon Fencing Alliance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Ed Korfanty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | Current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mariel Leigh Zagunis (born March 3, 1985) is an American sabre fencer. She won the gold medals in the individual sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the first American to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing, and was chosen to be the flag bearer of the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations.
Zagunis' parents, Robert and Cathy (née Menges) Zagunis, were collegiate rowers at Oregon State University and Connecticut College, respectively. They both competed with the U.S. rowing team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Her older brother Marten and younger brother Merrick also fence sabre. She grew up in Oregon and attended Valley Catholic from kindergarten to 12th grade, and the University of Notre Dame where she majored in anthropology.
Zagunis is of Lithuanian descent and was raised in the Catholic faith.
Zagunis was the first American fencer to hold the Jr. World Cup Champion title (2002), and she did so three years in a row (2002, 2003, 2004). She is the youngest fencer ever to win the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) World Championship gold, and the youngest fencer to win three FIE medals in one season. Zagunis won the FIE over-all medal three years in a row. She was the first fencer in the history of the sport to hold more than two World Champion titles in one season (2001: Cadet, Jr. and Jr. Team titles). She entered the University of Notre Dame in 2004 on an athletic scholarship.
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