Race Imboden
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| Full name | Race Alick Reid Imboden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
April 17, 1993 Tampa, Florida, United States |
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| Residence | Brooklyn, New York, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon(s) | Foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 172 lb (78 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Golubitsky Fencing Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Sergei Golubitsky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Race Imboden (born April 17, 1993 in Tampa, Florida) is an American foil fencer and menswear fashion model. A three-time Pan American champion, he took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2016 Summer Olympics - where he won a Bronze Medal in the Men's foil Team Event, earned a team silver medal in the 2013 World Fencing Championships, and won the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup.
Imboden was born in Tampa, Florida. His parents gave him his name after the Jonny Quest character Race Bannon. He moved to Atlanta at a young age. His first sports were inline skating and BMX; an inline skating accident left him with a crooked nose and a scar on his lip. He was playing with a toy sword in a park when a stranger suggested to his parents that he take up fencing. Shortly afterwards his family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City.
Imboden joined the Fencer's Club in Manhattan, where he first met Jed Dupree and Dan Kellner, both of whom were foil fencing athletes in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Both men would later work with Race as a student. Imboden was educated at the Dwight School, which supported his budding sports career. He fought his first international competition at age 14 and later earned the bronze medal in the cadet (U17) world fencing championships in 2010. After graduating High School in spring 2011 he decided not to go to Notre Dame, with which he had signed a letter of intent, but to take a year off to focus on his training. He became a member of the Brooklyn Bridge Fencing Club, in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, with Dan Kellner as his coach. He finally opted for St. John's University in New York, because it is closer to his family and coach.
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