Sara Balzer

Sara Balzer (born 3 April 1995) is a French left-handed sabre fencer. She won two Olympic silver medals, the first at the 2021 team event,^[1] and the second on home soil at the 2024 individual event.^[2] She has been ranked #1 in the world in women's sabre in 2022–2023 and 2023–2024.^[3]

Sara Balzer
Balzer in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1995-04-03) 3 April 1995 (age 30) Strasbourg, France
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	France
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Mathieu Gourdain
Club	Strasbourg Université Club
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's sabre Representing  France Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team 2024 Paris Individual World Championships 2025 Tbilisi Team 2022 Cairo Team 2023 Milan Team European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team European Championships 2022 Antalya Team 2023 Kraków Team 2025 Genoa Team 2023 Plovdiv Individual 2017 Tbilisi Team 2022 Antalya Individual Universiade 2019 Naples Individual 2019 Naples Team 2015 Gwangju Team

Personal life

Balzer was born in Strasbourg to a French father and a mother of Algerian descent. Her maternal grandfather was a spahi in the French Army.^[4]

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[5]
2024	Paris, France	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[6]
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[7]
2023	Milan, Italy	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[8]
2025	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Women's Sabre	1st[9]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[10]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[11]
2023	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[11]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2017-03-24	Yangzhou, China	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[12]
2022-03-03	Athens, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[13]
2023-03-17	Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[12]
2023-05-12	Batumi, Georgia	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[12]
2023-11-09	Algiers, Algeria	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[12]
2024-03-01	Acropolis, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[13]
2024-03-15	Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[13]
2024-05-17	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[13]

Grand Prix

Year	Location	Event	Position
2023-04-28	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[5]
2023-12-08	Orleans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[5]
2024-05-05	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[5]

See also

• France at the 2019 Summer Universiade