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Team USA Finishes Competition at 2023 Pan-American Senior Championships

06/20/2023, 6:00pm CDT

By Nicole Kirk

Team USA brings home sixteen medals; nine gold, three silver, four bronze.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Team USA showed up at the 2023 Pan-American Senior Championships in Lima, Peru and claimed a successful tournament as they collected win after win. The team finished the multi-day competition with sixteen medals, nine gold, three silver, and four bronze which tops their medal total from 2022 in Paraguay.

The first day of competition featured the women’s epee and men’s foil individual competitions. On the first day of competition Team USA took home five of the eight available medals. Women’s epee took home first place by way of Kasia Nixon, and bronze via Kat Holmes OLY. The men’s foil team Gerek Meinhardt OLY, Nick Itkin OLY, and Alexander Massialas OLY took the podium claiming gold, silver and bronze, respectively.

The second day of the Pan-American Senior Championships called for more of Team USA as Elizabeth Tartakovsky and Magda Skarbonkiewicz didn’t stop winning until they reached the medal stand. Skarbonkiewicz took gold and Tartakovsky took bronze during a successful day two of competition. Day three of zonals saw Team USA bring home four more medals, two of which were gold, for Lee Kiefer OLY and Andrew Doddo. Maia Weintraub brought home silver in the women’s foil individual competition along with teammate Lauren Scruggs who claimed bronze.

In a dominating fashion, the women’s epee team of Kat Holmes OLY, Kasia Nixon, Hadley Husisian and Isis Washington and men’s foil team of Gerek Meinhard OLY, Nick Itkin OLY, and Miles Chamley-Watson OLY made their way to the finals to make it a gold medal sweep for Team USA on the first day of team competitions. The women’s epee team and men’s foil team both won in the finals against Canada with respective final scores of 45-38, and 45-15.

Continuing into day five of zonals, the women’s saber team of Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Maia Chamberlain, Tatiana Nazlymov, and Elizabeth Tartakovsky took home gold in a dominating 45-20 win over Mexico.

On day five of zonals, the men’s epee team was issued a black card in the semifinals, and Team USA was disqualified, finishing the tournament without a ranking. You can find USA Fencing’s statement regarding the situation here.

The final day of competition featured the women’s foil team of Lee Kiefer OLY, Lauren Scruggs, Jackie Dubrovich OLY, and Maia Weintraub who claimed silver after a close battle with Canada. The men’s saber team of Eli Dershwitz OLY, Andrew Doddo, Colin Heathcock and Mitchell Saron also put up a close battle against Canada but managed to take home gold with a final score of 45-40.

The Senior World team representing Team USA will be back in action at the 2023 FIE World Championships in Milan, Italy.

Senior Women’s Epee

Gold: Kasia Nixon (Peter Westbrook Foundation)

Silver: Montserrat Viveros (PAR)

Bronze:Nathalie Moellhausen (BRA)

Bronze: Kat Holmes (New York Athletic Club)

5th: Karina DYNER (CRC)

6th: Maria Fernanda MORALES (MEX)
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13th: Anne Cebula (New York Athletic Club)

15th: Isis Washington (Peter Westbrook Foundation)

Senior Men’s Foil

Gold: Gerek Meinhardt (Massialas Foundation)
Silver: Nick Itkin (Los Angeles International Fencing Center)
Bronze: Alexander Massialas (Massialas Foundation)
Bronze: Guilherme Toldo (BRA)
5th: Diego Cervantes (MEX)
6th: Maximilien Van Haaster(CAN)

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10th: Miles Chamley-Watson (Los Angeles International Fencing Center)

Senior Men's Epee

Gold: Ruben Limardo Gascon (VEN)
Silver: Nicholas Zhang (CAN)
Bronze: Grabriel Lugo (VEN)
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8th: Stephen Ewart (New York Athletic Club/Notre Dame Fencing)

13th: Dylan Nollner (New York Athletic Club)

14th: Curtis McDowald (Peter Westbrook Foundation)

34th: Tristan Szapary (Fencers Club/Princeton Fencing)

Senior Women’s Saber

Gold: Magda Skarbonkiewicz (Oregon Fencing Alliance)
Silver: Pamela Brind'Amour (CAN)
Bronze: Karina Trois (BRA)
Bronze: Elizabeth Tartakovsky (Manhattan Fencing Center/Harvard Fencing)
5th: Tatiana Nazlymov (Nazlymov Fencing)
6th: Pietra Chierighini (BRA)

7th: Tamar Gordon (CAN)

8th: Luana Pekelman (BRA)

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19th: Maia Chamberlain (Manhattan Fencing Center/Advance Fencing and Fitness Academy)