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Dimitri Coutya

Born

7 October 1997 (age 26)

Nationality

British

Sport

Fencing

Weapon

Épée B / Foil B

National coach

Peter Rome

Club

University of Bath

Medal record

Wheelchair fencing

Representing Great Britain
Summer Paralympics
	2020 Tokyo	Men's Team Foil
	2020 Tokyo	Men's Individual Foil B
	2020 Tokyo	Men's Team Épée
	2020 Tokyo	Men's Individual Épée B
IWAS World Championships
	2019 Cheongju	Épée B
	2019 Cheongju	Foil B
	2017 Rome	Épée B
	2017 Rome	Foil B
	2015 Eger	Foil B
IWAS European Championships
	2018 Terni	Épée B
	2018 Terni	Foil B
	2016 Torino	Foil B
	2016 Torino	Épée B

Dimitri Coutya (born 7 October 1997)^[1] is a British wheelchair fencer. He won a team silver, a team bronze and two individual bronze medals for Great Britain in Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan.^[2]

Fencing internationally in Épée Cat B and Foil Cat B, he won a total of 48 Men Single Individual medals for Paralympics GB. He is the first British wheelchair fencer to win a Major individual Title in Foil (Rome 2017 World Championship - Men Individual Cat B Foil Gold).

After reaching the Épée quarter final in Rio 2016, Dimitri won two world championships golds in Rome 2017.^[3] He won his first European championships Gold in 2018 in Terni - Italy.^[4] At the 2019 world championships in Cheong Ju - South Korea, Dimitri won a Gold in Épée and a Silver in Foil.^[5]

For several years Dimitri has been ranked world no.1 in both Wheelchair Fencing Cat B Épée and Cat B Foil.

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