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'{{Infobox fencer | name = Eli Dershwitz | image = Eli Dershwitz 2015 WCh SMS-IN t122900.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname =BXZMBBZNSNNFJDFHFHNNXCNJJZS | country = | nationality = American | residence = Sherborn, Massachusetts | training = [[Natick, Massachusetts]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|9|23}} | birth_place = [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]] | weapon = [[sabre (fencing)|saber]] | hand = left-handed | height = {{convert|1.85|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|77.1|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | club = Zeta Fencing | headcoach = [[Zoran Tulum]] | nationalranking = [http://fie.org/fencers/fencer/27914 current ranking] | fieranking = 12 | domesticranking= 1<ref name="news.harvard.edu">[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/harvard-fencer-heads-for-olympics/]</ref> | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|[[Junior World Fencing Championships|Junior World Championships]]}} {{MedalGold| Tashkent 2015 | Individual}} {{MedalSilver| Moscow 2012 | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| Porec 2013 | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| Plovdiv 2014 | Team}} {{MedalBronze| Tashkent 2015 | Team}} {{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}} {{MedalGold| [[2015 Pan American Games|Toronto 2015]] | [[Fencing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's sabre|Individual]] }} {{MedalGold| [[2015 Pan American Games|Toronto 2015]] | [[Fencing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's team sabre|Team]] }}<ref>http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/fencing/schedule-and-results.htm</ref> {{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Fencing Championships|Pan American Championships]]}} {{MedalGold| [[2016 Pan American Fencing Championships|Panama City 2016]] | Team }} {{MedalGold| [[2015 Pan American Fencing Championships|Santiago de Chile 2015]] | Individual }} {{MedalGold| [[2014 Pan American Fencing Championships|San José 2014]] | Individual }} {{MedalGold| [[2013 Pan American Fencing Championships|Cartagena 2013]] | Team }} {{MedalBronze| [[2016 Pan American Fencing Championships|Panama 2016]] | Individual }} {{MedalCompetition|[[Fencing World Cup|Senior World Cups]]}} {{MedalGold| Seoul 2016| Individual}}<ref name="fie.org">http://fie.org/competitions/2016/759/results/rank</ref> {{MedalGold| Warsaw 2016| Team}}<ref name="fie.org">http://fie.org/competitions/2016/759/results/rank</ref> {{MedalGold| Tbilisi 2015| Team}}<ref name="fie.org">http://fie.org/competitions/2016/759/results/rank</ref> {{MedalSilver| Madrid 2016| Team}} {{MedalSilver| Madrid 2014| Team}} {{MedalSilver| Budapest 2015| Team}}<ref name="fie.org">http://fie.org/competitions/2016/759/results/rank</ref> {{MedalCompetition|Junior World Cups}} {{MedalGold| Sosnowiec 2013 | Individual}} {{MedalGold| Phoenix 2013 | Individual}} {{MedalGold| Budapest 2014 | Individual}} {{MedalGold| Phoenix 2014 | Individual}} {{MedalGold| Budapest 2015 | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| Sosnowiec 2012 | Individual}} {{MedalCompetition|Cadet World Cups}} {{MedalGold| Goppingen 2010 | Individual}}<ref>http://www.eurofencing.info/</ref> {{MedalGold| Moscow 2010 | Individual}} {{MedalGold| Konin 2011 | Individual}} {{MedalCompetition|North American Cups}} {{MedalGold| Anaheim 2012 | Junior}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2011-2012/2012-07-SN/</ref> {{MedalGold| Columbus 2013 | Junior}} {{MedalGold| Columbus 2014 | Junior}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2013-2014/2014-07-JUL%20SN/FTEvent_2014Jun22_U19MS.htm</ref> {{MedalGold| Virginia Beach 2014 | Junior}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2013-2014/2014-01-JAN%20NAC/</ref> {{MedalGold| Virginia Beach 2014 | Division 1}} {{MedalGold| St. Louis 2015 | Division 1}} {{MedalGold| San Jose 2015 | Division 1}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2014-2015/2015.06-JUN-SN/FTEvent_2015Jun27_DV1MS.htm</ref> {{MedalGold| Salt Lake City 2015 | Division 1}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2014-2015/2015.01-JAN-NAC/</ref> {{MedalSilver| Cleveland 2013 | Division 1}} {{MedalSilver| Columbus 2014 | Division 1}} {{MedalSilver| Portland 2014 | Division 1}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2014-2015/2014.10-OCT-NAC/</ref> {{MedalBronze| Virginia Beach 2012 | Division 1}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2011-2012/2012-04-APR%20NAC/</ref> {{MedalBronze| Salt Lake City 2012 | Junior}}<ref>http://www.usfencingresults.org/results/2011-2012/2012-02-FEB%20JO/FTEvent_2012Feb17_U20MS.htm</ref> {{MedalBronze| Cleveland 2013 | Junior}} }} '''Eli Dershwitz''' (born September 23, 1995) is an American Olympic [[saber]] fencer.<ref name="gocrimson.com">[http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mfencing/2014-15/bios/dershwitz_eli_7m7n?view=bio]</ref><ref name="teamusa.org">[http://www.teamusa.org/usa-fencing/athletes/Eli-Dershwitz]</ref> He was ranked #1 in the United States, and #10 in the world, as of the summer of 2016.<ref name="bostonglobe.com">[https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2016/07/19/fencer-eli-dershwitz-ready-strike-rio-olympics/AlzoNjPgDdbLisXOqtEJCK/story.html]</ref><ref name="usfencing.org">[http://www.usfencing.org/page/show/2513991-eli-dershwitz]</ref> He is the youngest saber fencer among the world’s top 25. Dershwitz represented the US in [[fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics]], and will return to [[Harvard University]] as a sophomore. In 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Championship, becoming the youngest-ever US senior men's saber champion. Dershwitz then won the [[2015 Junior World Fencing Championships]] in saber, becoming the first American men's saber fencer to win a world title. He is a four-time Pan-American Champion, and the [[2015 Pan American Games]] champion in saber. ==Early life and education== Dershwitz is Jewish, and was born and raised in [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]].<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/><ref>[http://www.jta.org/2016/07/31/life-religion/2016-olympics-7-jewish-american-olympians-to-watch-in-rio?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=1b55860233-JTA_Sunday_Features_7_31_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2dce5bc6f8-1b55860233-25404721]</ref><ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/2016-olympics-7-jewish-american-olympians-to-watch-in-rio/]</ref><ref name="hillel.org">[http://www.hillel.org/about/news-views/news-views---blog/news-and-views/2016/08/02/meet-the-jewish-harvard-student-going-for-gold-in-rio]</ref> His parents are Renee Goetzler and Mark Dershwitz.<ref name="legacy.com">[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=404243]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=152040790]</ref> His maternal grandparents, both [[Holocaust survivor]]s, were Ruth (née Schmukler) Goetzler (born in [[Tarnów]], Poland, she survived [[the Holocaust]] hidden in a barn by a Polish farmer) and Mark Goetzler (born in [[Jasło]], Poland, he also lived in [[Samarkand, Uzbekistan]]).<ref name="hillel.org"/><ref name="legacy.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/> His paternal grandparents were Arthur Dershwitz and Tillie (née Segel) Dershwitz.<ref name="legacy.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/> He has an older brother (Phil, who fenced for Princeton University) and a twin sister (Sally, who competed in gymnastics and lacrosse).<ref name="teamusa.org"/><ref name="ReferenceB">[https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2013/03/20/three-greater-boston-teens-make-national-fencing-squad/zhetUdMAwYZleecyKsNyiN/story.html]</ref> He attended the Conservative synagogue Temple Israel of [[Natick]], was bar mitzvah in 2008, and considers himself a "proud member of the Jewish community."<ref name="hillel.org"/><ref>[https://www.tiofnatick.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/site/Home/2014%20May%20June%20HaKol%202014.pdf]</ref> Dershwitz played basketball and soccer up until the end of middle school.<ref name="milforddailynews.com">[http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20151208/SPORTS/151128791/?Start=2]</ref> He attended [[Dover-Sherborn High School]], graduating in 2014.<ref name="gocrimson.com"/><ref name="teamusa.org"/> He is a student at [[Harvard University]], where Dershwitz plans to possibly major in either history or government.<ref name="milforddailynews.com"/> He is a member of the varsity [[Harvard Crimson fencing]] team.<ref>http://www.gocrimson.com/aotw/2014-15/20141209_dershwitz</ref> As a freshman in 2014-15, he was a First Team [[All-American]], All-[[Ivy League]], and finished third at the [[NCAA Fencing Championships]] with a 22-2 record.<ref name="gocrimson.com"/> He was the seventh Harvard fencer to compete in the Olympics, with the prior two having been [[Emily Cross]] '09 (Team USA) and [[Noam Mills]] '12 (Israel), who both competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/3/29/jarocki-dershwitz-fencing-forces/]</ref><ref>[http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mfencing/2015-16/releases/20160326hot3cu]</ref> Dershwitz took off the 2015–16 school year to train full-time for the Olympics.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/> == Fencing career == Dershwitz was ranked number 1 in saber in the United States, and number 10 in the world, as of the summer of 2016.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/><ref name="usfencing.org"/> In March 2016, US Olympic saber coach [[Zoran Tulum]] said: "Eli’s world ranking is remarkable... he is the youngest [saber] fencer among the world’s top 25."<ref>[http://dover.wickedlocal.com/news/20160305/sherborns-eli-dershwitz-part-of-championship-us-fencing-team]</ref> He followed his older brother into fencing.<ref name="usfencing.org"/> Dershwitz has been coached since 2004 when he was 9 years old by Tulum, at the Zeta Fencing club in [[Natick, Massachusetts]].<ref>[http://dover.wickedlocal.com/article/20140515/SPORTS/140518840]</ref><ref>[http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/harvard/video/harvard-feature-mens-fencings-eli-dershwitz,-an-olympic-hopeful]</ref> Tulum will coach the US men’s saber team in the 2016 Olympics.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/><ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="Pave2014"/><ref>[http://sherborn.wickedlocal.com/article/20140515/Sports/140518840]</ref> In February 2016, Dershwitz beat Russia's 2015 world champion [[Alexey Yakimenko]] at the Warsaw World Cup.<ref name="ReferenceC">[https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2016/07/29/meet-new-england-olympians/l0HHyLYnEQhT7QMy7mrVsJ/story.html]</ref> In March 2016, while winning the gold medal at the Seoul Grand Prix in South Korea, he defeated 2014 world silver medalist [[Gu Bon-gil]] of Korea in the quarterfinals, 2014 world champion [[Nikolay Kovalev]] of Russia in the semifinals, and Iranian [[Mojtaba Abedini]] in the final.<ref>[http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/March/26/Eli-Dershwitz-Qualifies-For-First-Olympic-Team-After-His-First-Ever-Grand-Prix-Gold-Medal]</ref> ===US Championship competitions=== In March 2013, Dershwitz was the top-ranked US junior saber fencer.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> In April 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Championship, becoming the youngest-ever US senior men's saber champion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usfencing.org/page/show/1187627-2014-div-i-and-wheelchair-championship-april-north-american-cup |title=2014 DIV I & Wheelchair Championship + April North American Cup &#124; National Tournament Results |publisher=USA Fencing |date=2014-03-31 |accessdate=2014-05-24}}</ref><ref name="Lazdowski2013"/><ref name="Larson2015"/><ref>[https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2014/06/25/sherborn-teen-eli-dershwitz-sabre-champion-off-worlds-russia/TS3YcTeieY1xfs1c2H43KL/story.html]</ref> As of July 1, 2016, he was ranked #1 in the United States, ahead of teammate [[Daryl Homer]].<ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/8/10/eli-dershwitz-harvard-olympics-2016/]</ref> ===World Championship competitions=== Dershwitz was the 2015 Under-20 World Saber Champion.<ref name="fencingworldwide.com">http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/1724-14/result/</ref> He is the only American men's saber fencer to win a world title.<ref name="fencingworldwide.com"/> He is a five-time [[Junior World Fencing Championships]] and Cadet World Championships team member.<ref>[http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/1724-14/result/]</ref> He won a [[silver medal]] at the 2012 Junior World Championships, a [[bronze medal]] at the 2013 Junior World Championships, and the [[gold medal]] at the [[2015 Junior World Fencing Championships]]—the first title for a US men’s saber fencer at the junior world championships.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/><ref name="ReferenceC"/> In March 2013, Dershwitz was the number-two-ranked world junior saber fencer.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> In 2013, Dershwitz fenced in [[men's sabre at the 2013 World Fencing Championships]], where he finished 36th after a 15-12 loss to [[Matyas Szabo]] (Germany). He was also the youngest member of the US national team in 2013, at 17 years of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usfencing.org/page/show/739653-eli-dershwitz |title=Senior Athletes &#124; Athlete Bios |publisher=USA Fencing |date=2014-05-19 |accessdate=2014-05-24}}</ref> Dershwitz also competed in [[men's sabre at the 2014 World Fencing Championships]] in [[Kazan]], Russia, in [[men's sabre at the 2015 World Fencing Championships]] in Moscow, Russia, and in the 2016 Senior Team World Championships in [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>http://fie.org/competitions/2015/246/results/rank</ref><ref>http://www.fie.ch/Competitions/ResultsList.aspx?Key=6411845B1D970A3EB0F3378EF9406167</ref> ===Pan American Games and Pan American Championships=== Dershwitz is a four-time Pan-American Champion. He won individual gold medals at the [[2014 Pan American Fencing Championships]] in [[San Jose, Costa Rica]], and the [[2015 Pan American Fencing Championships]] in [[Santiago, Chile]]. He also won team gold medals in the [[2013 Pan American Fencing Championships]] in [[Cartagena, Colombia]], and the [[2016 Pan American Fencing Championships]] in [[Panama City, Panama]].<ref>http://fie.org/results</ref> Dershwitz also won gold medals in both individual and team saber in [[fencing at the 2015 Pan American Games]] in [[Toronto]], Canada.<ref>http://www.toronto2015.org/</ref> ===Olympics=== Dershwitz represented the United States in [[fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics]] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 10.<ref name="news.harvard.edu">[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/harvard-fencer-heads-for-olympics/]</ref><ref>[http://dover.wickedlocal.com/article/20160329/NEWS/160325978]</ref> He qualified by being in the top 14 of the [[FIE]] adjusted official ranking list, and will be the youngest member of the US Olympic fencing team.<ref name="ReferenceC"/><ref>[http://www.metro.us/boston/summer-olympics-previews-sherborn-native-eli-dershwitz-ready-to-carve-up-rio/zsJpgl---aCMhgeGSedAJo/]</ref> He said, "I am excited to represent my country, my sport and the Jewish community at a sporting event that brings the entire world together in peace."<ref name="hillel.org"/> Commenting on having watched the last Olympics from home as a teenager, Dershwitz said "just to think that in three short years ... it can go from watching on a computer screen ... screaming in my pajamas at 3 in the morning to actually being on the biggest stage in sports, it’s so hard to picture. But now it’s all I think about."<ref>[http://www.usfencing.org/news_article/show/588633?referrer_id=693583]</ref> Dershwitz fenced Seppe Van Holsbeke of Belgium in the opening round of the Olympics men’s sabre competition.<ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/8/10/eli-dershwitz-harvard-olympics-2016/]</ref> He lost 15-12 to Van Holsbeke, who advanced to the Round of 16.<ref>[http://somerville.wickedlocal.com/news/20160810/sherborns-eli-dershwitz-competes-in-olympics-this-wednesday]</ref> He plans to return to Harvard University as a sophomore six days after the [[2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony]].<ref name="hillel.org"/> ==See also== *[[List of Jews in sports#Fencing|List of select Jewish fencers]] == References == {{reflist|2|refs= <ref name="Lazdowski2013">{{Cite web | title = Three Greater Boston teens make national fencing squad | first = Paul | last = Lazdowski | work = The Boston Globe | date = 2013-03-21 | accessdate = 2015-05-03 | url = http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2013/03/20/three-greater-boston-teens-make-national-fencing-squad/zhetUdMAwYZleecyKsNyiN/story.html | quote = [Eli] Dershwitz, [Andrew] Mackiewicz, and [Alex] House ... were named to the 18-member US National Junior Fencing Team }}</ref> <ref name="Pave2014">{{Cite web | title = Sherborn teen Eli Dershwitz, US Sabre champion, off to worlds in Russia | first = Martin | last = Pave | work = The Boston Globe | date = 2014-06-26 | accessdate = 2015-05-03 | url = http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2014/06/25/sherborn-teen-eli-dershwitz-sabre-champion-off-worlds-russia/TS3YcTeieY1xfs1c2H43KL/story.html?s_campaign=8315 | quote = ...youngest-ever national champion in the sabre... }}</ref> <ref name="Larson2015">{{Cite web | title = Sherborn’s Eli Dershwitz repeats as Pan American champion in Sabre | first = Craig | last = Larson | work = The Boston Globe | date = 2015-04-26 | accessdate = 2015-05-03 | url = http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2015/04/25/sherborn-eli-dershwitz-repeats-pan-american-champion-sabre/AXZO3FcFObLJXcfqSaZlmO/story.html# | quote = ...World Championship title, Sherborn teen Eli Dershwitz returned to the medal podium Monday in Santiago, Chile. ... defended his Pan American title and won the individual gold medal for the second year in a row }}</ref>}} ==External links== *[https://www.facebook.com/elidershwitz/?fref=nf Eli Dershwitz official Facebook page] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dershwitz, Eli}} [[Category:1995 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American male fencers]] [[Category:American sabre fencers]] [[Category:Harvard Crimson athletes]] [[Category:Jewish fencers]] [[Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent]] [[Category:American people of Uzbekistani-Jewish descent]] [[Category:Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Olympic fencers of the United States]] [[Category:American Jews]] [[Category:People from Sherborn, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Fencers at the 2015 Pan American Games]] [[Category:Pan American Games gold medalists]] [[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists]]'