Welcome to the hub for the 2023 Junior & Cadet Fencing World Championships, held April 1–9, 2023, in Plovdiv, the second-largest city in Bulgaria and its cultural capital.
We'll update this page regularly to give fans the info they need to follow who has qualified for the event and how to cheer along from home.
Let's go, USA!
Junior Women's Epee
Junior Men's Epee
Samuel Imrek (Missouri City, Texas/Alliance Fencing Academy)
Miles Weiss (Houston, Texas/Alliance Fencing Academy and The Ohio State University)
Henry Lawson (New York, N.Y./Fencers Club Inc.)
Gabriel Feinberg (Lincoln, Mass./Olympia Fencing Center and The Ohio State University)
Cadet Women's Epee
Leehi Machulsky (San Jose, Calif./Academy of Fencing Masters (AFM))
Sarah Gu (Warren, N.J./Medeo Fencing Club)
Yasmine Khamis (McKinney, Texas/Alliance Fencing Academy)
Cadet Men's Epee
Luka Loncar (Belmont, Mass./Olympia Fencing Center)
Alexander Bezrodnov (Mountainside, N.J./Medeo Fencing Club)
Sergei Kudriavtcev (Houston, Texas/Alliance Fencing Academy)
Junior Women's Foil
Lauren Scruggs (Queens, N.Y./Peter Westbrook Foundation, Fencers Club Inc. and Harvard University)
Zander Rhodes (South Orange, N.J./V Fencing Club, Le Club Touche and Columbia University)
Ryanne Leslie (Philadelphia, PA./V Fencing Club and Piste Fencing Academy)
Emily Jing (Roxbury, Mass./Star Fencing Academy)
Junior Men's Foil
Cadet Women's Foil
Emily Jing (Roxbury, Mass./Star Fencing Academy)
Katerina Lung (Lexington, Mass./Moe Fencing Club LLC)
Jia Chen (Franklin Lakes, N.J./V Fencing Club and Le Club Touche)
Cadet Men's Foil
Roy Graham (Needham, Mass./Jovanovic Fencing)
Castor Kao (Needham, Mass./Star Fencing Academy)
Renzo Fukuda (San Francisco, Calif./Massialas Foundation (M Team))
Photo by Eva Pavia/#BizziTeam
Junior Women's Saber
Junior Men's Saber
Colin Heathcock (Palo Alto, Calif./Manhattan Fencing Center)
William Morrill (New York, N.Y./Scarsdale Fencing Center and Fencers Club Inc.)
Cody Walter Ji (Atlanta, Ga./Nellya Fencers)
Lev BenAvram (Bethesda, Md./Nazlymov Fencing Foundation and Brandeis University)
Cadet Women's Saber
Jenna Shoman (Short Hills, N.J./Manhattan Fencing Center)
Sophie Liu (North Potomac, Md./Capital Fencing Academy)
Hannah Lee (Wellesley, Mass./Boston Fencing Club)
Cadet Men's Saber
William Morrill (New York, N.Y./Scarsdale Fencing Center and Fencers Club Inc.)
Cody Walter Ji (Atlanta, Ga./Nellya Fencers)
Taylor Chon (Carrollton, Texas/Globus Fencing Academy)
Junior Women’s Saber
Junior Men’s Saber
Here's where the past 10 Junior & Cadet Fencing World Championships have been held:
2014 - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2015 - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2016 - Bourges, France
2017 - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2018 - Verona, Italy
2019 - Toruń, Poland
2020 - The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 - Cairo, Egypt
2022 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023 - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Team USA won 15 medals at the 2022 Junior & Cadet Worlds in Dubai.
Gold and World Champion:
Silver:
Bronze:
The medal count from 2022.