Headercolor: | lightblue |
Carole Vergne | |
Birth Date: | 7 August 1985 |
Birth Place: | Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France |
Weight: | 550NaN0 |
Sport: | Fencing |
Event: | Sabre |
Club: | Lagardère Paris Racing |
Coach: | Pierre Guichot (national) Morgan Fraboulet (personal) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Carole Vergne (born August 7, 1985, in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French sabre fencer.[1] She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the same weapon at the 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[2] [3]
Vergne represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Vergne received a bye for the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out to South Korea's Kim Keum-Hwa, with a sudden death score of 14–15.[4] Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Solenn Mary, Léonore Perrus, and Anne-Lise Touya for the women's team sabre. Vergne and her team, however, lost the bronze medal match to the U.S. team (led by Mariel Zagunis), with a total score of 38 touches.[5]