Romain Cannone
| Romain Cannone | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 April 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | ||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Épée | ||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Romain Cannone (12 April 1997) is a French epée fencer and an Olympic gold medalist in individual epée at the 2020 Summer Olympics.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).[1]
As of 2019, when Cannone qualified for the Olympics, he was a student at Skema Business School.[2]
On July 25, 2021, Cannone won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics (15-10) against the world champion Gergely Siklósi.[3][4] He defeated the Russian Sergey Bida in the quarter-finals (15-12) and the Ukrainian Ihor Reizlin in the semi-finals.[5] Originally, Canonne had not been selected to compete, but On June 18, Cannone was selected to replace Daniel Jérent who had been caught doping in November of 2020.[6]
References
- ^ "Romain Cannone profile". Eurosport.
- ^ "A focus on Romain Cannone, high-achieving athlete at SKEMA". SKEMA. 16 December 2019.
- ^ https://nationalpost.com/pmn/sports-pmn/olympics-fencing-cannone-of-france-wins-gold-in-mens-epee-individual
- ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/olympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-07-25.htm
- ^ https://newsrnd.com/sports/2021-07-25-tokyo-olympics--romain-cannone-qualified-for-the-epee-final--third-medal-assured-for-the-blues.ryuSWa9CO.html
- ^ https://www.barrons.com/news/french-pull-2016-fencing-champion-jerent-from-tokyo-team-for-doping-01624012809