Lauren Rembi

Lauren Rembi (born 9 March 1992) is a French fencer.

Lauren Rembi
Lauren Rembi in 2013
Personal information
Born (1992-03-09) 9 March 1992
Paris, France
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
Weaponépée
Handright-handed
ClubAS Bondy

Career

Rembi competed in the women's individual épée and the women's team épée events at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the individual épée, she defeated the 2016 European individual épée champion Simona Gherman in the round of 32 and lost to the current world no. 1 Emese Szász in the semi-finals. She lost the bronze medal match to Sun Yiwen 13-15.[1][2]

Personal life

Rembi's father is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and her mother is from Martinique. Rembi began fencing at age six and her older sister Joséphine Jacques-André-Coquin represented France in fencing.[3]

gollark: > 5 years later with no features in interim
gollark: Also because any big change would probably ruin *something*.
gollark: I imagine it might be that because:old and TJ09 probably never stopped to refactorit's a complex game with interdependency everywherePHPhe said so in that
gollark: Yep!
gollark: Basically, where everything depends on other stuff in crazy ways and new features are bolted on without stopping to rethink stuff.

References

  1. "Lauren Rembi". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. "Jeux Olympiques - Épée : Lauren Rembi manque la médaille de bronze". L'Équipe. 6 August 2016.
  3. "Lauren Rembi's FIE biography". FIE website.


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