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Ysaora Thibus
Thibus at the French Fencing Championship 2013
Personal information
Born (1991-08-22) 22 August 1991 (age 33)
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
NationalityFrench
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
CountryFrance
WeaponFoil
ClubAS Bourg-la-Reine[1]
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's foil
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cairo Individual
Silver medal – second place 2013 Budapest Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Wuxi Individual
Silver medal – second place 2023 Milan Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Kazan Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Moscow Team
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Leipzig Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Wuxi Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo Team
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Legnano Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Zagreb Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Antalya Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków Team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Zagreb Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Strasbourg Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Montreux Team
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Torún Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Tbilisi Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Novi Sad Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Düsseldorf Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Antalya Individual
Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Shenzhen Team

Ysaora Jennifer Thibus (born 22 August 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2020 team Olympic silver medalist.[2]

Career

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Ysaora Thibus is studying at the ESCP Business School. In 2013, she received the Bernard Destremau Prize from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, which rewards a high-level athlete who combines competition and higher education.[3]

Thibus took up fencing at the age of 7 in Guadeloupe. At 17, she moved to France to train with the French national youth team in Aix-en-Provence, joining the senior training team in Paris a year later.[4]

Thibus competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games.[5] In 2016, after winning her first team bronze medal at the Rio Worlds in April,[6] she participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

She reached her first individual world podium in 2017 in Leipzig with a third place, then in 2018 in Wuxi where she lost 12–15 in the final to Alice Volpi.[7]

In 2021, she won a silver medal in the team foil event with Anita Blaze, Astrid Guyart and Pauline Ranvier at the Tokyo Olympic Games,[8] losing in the final to the Russian team.[9] Beaten in the second round in individual, she said she was "psychologically exhausted" after the Olympic competition and stopped training for four months.[10]

In February 2024, Thibus was issued with a provisional suspension after testing positive for ostarine at the Challenge International de Paris event in January.[11] Following due process, in May 2024 the International Fencing Federation deemed that Thibus bore "no fault or negligence" for the anti-doping rule violation. They accepted her explanation that the source of the ostarine was through kissing her partner Race Imboden whom she was unaware had been using the ostarine.[12] Therefore, other than disqualification of results from the event in Paris, Thibus received no sanction. An appeal by WADA to the decision was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in July 2025.[12][13]

At the Paris Olympics in 2024, Thinus lost her first match in the women's individual foil and was a member of the French team in the team foil event where they placed fifth.

Personal life

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Thibus founded the EssentiElle program for women athletes, which aims to amplify their voices within the world of athletics.[14]

From around 2021 Thibus was in a long-term relationship and engaged to American foil fencer Race Imboden, however as of 2025 they appear to have split up.[15][16]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Foil 2nd[17]

World Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2013 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Foil 2nd[18]
2014 Russia Kazan, Russia Team Women's Foil 3rd[19]
2015 Russia Moscow, Russia Team Women's Foil 3rd[20]
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Team Women's Foil 3rd[21]
2017 Germany Leipzig, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[22]
2018 China Wuxi, China Individual Women's Foil 2nd[23]
2018 China Wuxi, China Team Women's Foil 3rd[24]
2022 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Individual Women's Foil 1st[25]

European Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2012 Italy Legnano, Italy Team Women's Foil 2nd[26]
2013 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[27]
2013 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Team Women's Foil 2nd[28]
2014 France Strasbourg, France Team Women's Foil 3rd[29]
2015 Switzerland Montreux, Switzerland Team Women's Foil 3rd[30]
2016 Poland Toruń, Poland Team Women's Foil 3rd[31]
2017 Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[32]
2018 Serbia Novi Sad, Serbia Team Women's Foil 3rd[33]
2019 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[34]
2019 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Team Women's Foil 2nd[35]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2015-03-13 Cuba Havana, Cuba Individual Women's Foil 3rd[36]
2016-06-03 China Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[37]
2017-05-19 China Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[38]
2020-02-07 Italy Turin, Italy Individual Women's Foil 1st[39]
2021-03-26 Qatar Doha, Qatar Individual Women's Foil 3rd[40]

World Cup

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Date Location Event Position
2013-02-08 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Women's Foil 3rd[41]
2013-03-01 Russia St. Petersburg, Russia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[42]
2014-05-02 China Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[43]
2015-01-16 Poland Gdańsk, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[44]
2015-10-16 Mexico Cancún, Mexico Individual Women's Foil 1st[45]
2017-01-13 Algeria Algier, Algeria Individual Women's Foil 1st[46]
2019-01-25 France Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 3rd[47]
2019-05-03 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[48]
2019-11-22 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Individual Women's Foil 3rd[49]
2020-01-10 Poland Katowice, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[50]

Awards

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References

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  12. ^ a b "French Olympic fencer cleared as CAS accepts positive test linked to kissing partner". Reuters. 7 July 2025.
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