Eli Dershwitz

American fencer

埃利·德施维茨 · 일라이 더슈위츠

Born

23 September 1995, Boston

Citizenship

United States

Sport

fencing

Occupation

fencer

Height

185 cm (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

77 kg (170 lb)

Eli Dershwitz ( DURSH-wits; born September 23, 1995) is an American left-handed saber fencer, five-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympian, and the 2023 saber World Champion.

In 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Championship, becoming the youngest US senior men's saber championship holder. Dershwitz then won the 2015 Junior World Fencing Championships in saber, becoming the inaugural U.S. men's saber fencer to win a world title. He is a five-time Pan-American Championship title holder, and the 2015 Pan American Games champion in saber. Dershwitz competed in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He returned to Harvard University as a sophomore, winning individual saber in the 2017 NCAA Fencing Championship and as a junior in the 2018 NCAA Fencing Championship. He was ranked #1 in the United States as of February 2018, and was ranked #1 in the world as of July 2018. He was the youngest saber fencer among the world's top 25.

Competitions

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q16934980 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.