Sara Balzer: World No. 1, who is a fencing sabre prodigy ?

Fencer Sara Balzer is the big favorite in the sabre event.

She is one of the great chances of a gold medal for the French delegation in these Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With her impressive physique and her great height, Sara Balzer knows that she has a date with history. Silver medalist in Tokyo in 2021, she keeps her feet on the ground. “At the top”? I am not an Olympic champion, not a world champion, I have not reached the top yet”.

It is & At the age of 8, seeing her older sister practicing this sport, she wanted to try it.  "I immediately liked the sabre. It is the fastest weapon, which requires you to be very dynamic, tactical and combative.  I like to engage in a match with anger. I discovered that I was a bad loser! “, she confided to Madame Figaro.

As for her achievements, she won the gold medal in the team event at the French championships, before winning the individual event in 2017. A torn cruciate ligament anterior left knee will break her momentum, forcing Sara to take a year off: “It's a year of rehabilitation, and at least a year to get back to her level and no longer be afraid“, she explains to France Bleu. She will come back stronger and win gold at the Summer University in Naples in 2019, then the same medal at the World Cups in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons. Her victory in sabre at the 2023 European Games took her to first place in the world rankings.