Dimitri Coutya
British wheelchair fencer
Dimitri Coutya, MBE (born 7 October 1997) is a British wheelchair fencer. He is the Cat B Wheelchair Fencing Champion for Individual Foil and Individual Épée at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won a team silver, a team bronze and two individual bronze medals for Great Britain in Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan.
Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 82 Men Single International Individual medals for GBR.
After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Coutya won two world championships golds in Rome 2017. He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy. At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Coutya won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil.
During the preparations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Coutya won 7 European Titles, World Championship Bronze and Silver medals (Terni 2023 - Italy), and his first European Sabre medal, a Silver in the Paris 2024 European Championship.
For several years Coutya has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.
On 3 July 2024, Coutya became the first British Fencing athlete to be selected for the Paralympics, to fence in all three individual weapons (Sabre, Foil and Épée).
In the Paris 2024 Summer Pralympics, Coutya became the first Brit to win an Individual Foil Gold since Cyril Thomas in Tokyo 1964.
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