Ulrich Robeiri

Ulrich Robeiri
At the 2014 Challenge International de Paris
Personal information
Born	(1982-10-26) 26 October 1982 (age 41) Cayenne, French Guiana
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb; 13.4 st)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	épée
Hand	Right-handed
National coach	Hugues Obry
Club	Levallois Sporting Club
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's fencing Representing  France Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team épée World Championships 2005 Leipzig Team épée 2006 Turin Team épée 2007 Saint-Petersburg Team épée 2009 Antalya Team épée 2010 Paris Team épée 2014 Kazan Individual 2014 Kazan Team épée 2012 Kiev Team épée 2003 Havana Individual 2013 Budapest Team épée European Championships 2008 Kiev Team épée 2009 Plovdiv Individual 2007 Ghent Team épée 2013 Zagreb Individual

Ulrich Robeiri (born 26 October 1982) is a French right-handed épée fencer, two-time team European champion, six-time team world champion, 2014 individual world champion, and 2008 team Olympic champion.^[1]

Career

Robeiri was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. He began fencing at age 8 at the Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France, an interreligious scouting association.^[2] He first practiced foil, the traditional learning weapon, before turning to épée.^[2] He first joined the centre for promising young athletes in Les Abymes, in Guadeloupe, then at the age of 15, the centre of Reims in metropolitan France.^[2] In 2001, he earned a bronze medal in the Junior European Championships in Keszthely. A year later, he was admitted into INSEP, a state institution for high-performance athletes.^[2] That same year, he earned the gold medal both in the individual and team event of the Junior World Championships in Antalya.

During his first season as a senior, he won the Lisbon Grand Prix and the Paris World Cup, and earned a bronze medal in the World Championships in Havana. He finished the season No.4 in world rankings. After a dry spell in 2003–04, he won the Heidenheim Grand Prix and the Puerto Rico World Cup in 2005. The same year, he joined the French national épée team, which had won the Olympic gold at Athens. With Érik Boisse, Jérôme Jeannet and Fabrice Jeannet, Robeiri won the gold medal at the World Championships. The team would come to be known as “the Invincibles”, as they dominated men's épée from 2004 to 2010 with eight consecutive world titles.^[3]

In the 2013–14 season, Robeiri placed second in the Berne Grand Prix and made it to the quarter-finals in the European Championships in Strasbourg before being defeated by Hungary's András Rédli, who eventually won the competition. A month after, Robeiri made it to the semi-final where he defeated his old teammate Gauthier Grumier. In the final, he prevailed over Park Kyoung-doo of South Korea to win his first individual World title.^[4]

Robeiri graduated from the Polytech'Paris-UPMC engineering school. He works as an engineer within the information and communications systems division of RATP Group, the public transport operator for Paris, with a special contract which allows him to train and to attend major competitions.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2008	Beijing, China	Team Men's Épée	1st[5]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2003	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[6]
2005	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Épée	1st[7]
2006	Turin, Italy	Team Men's Épée	1st[8]
2007	St. Petersburg, Russia	Team Men's Épée	1st[9]
2009	Antalya, Turkey	Team Men's Épée	1st[10]
2010	Paris, France	Team Men's Épée	1st[11]
2012	Kyiv, Ukraine	Team Men's Épée	2nd[12]
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Épée	3rd[13]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Men's Épée	1st[14]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Épée	1st[15]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2007	Ghent, Belgium	Team Men's Épée	3rd[16]
2008	Kyiv, Ukraine	Team Men's Épée	1st[17]
2009	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[18]
2013	Zagreb, Croatia	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[19]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Épée	1st[20]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2003-02-01	Lisbon, Portugal	Individual Men's Épée	1st[21]
2003-03-21	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[22]
2005-04-29	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	1st[23]
2006-01-27	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[24]
2008-02-01	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	1st[25]
2010-01-29	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	1st[26]
2012-05-12	Stockholm, Sweden	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[27]
2014-05-10	Bern, Switzerland	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[28]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2003-03-15	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	1st[29]
2005-07-02	Carolina, Puerto Rico	Individual Men's Épée	1st[30]
2006-05-20	Tallinn, Estonia	Individual Men's Épée	1st[31]
2007-02-17	Tallinn, Estonia	Individual Men's Épée	1st[32]
2007-03-23	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[33]
2007-06-08	Caguas, Puerto Rico	Individual Men's Épée	1st[34]
2009-05-09	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[35]
2011-06-17	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[36]
2012-01-27	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[37]
2012-04-27	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	1st[38]
2013-02-15	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	2nd[39]
2014-10-24	Bern, Switzerland	Individual Men's Épée	3rd[40]

References

External links

• Profile at the European Fencing Confederation