Current Residence: New York City, N.Y.
Club: New York Athletic Club
Coach: Self and Sebastien Dos Santos
Olympic Teams: 2012, 2004
Senior World Championship Teams: 2013, 2012 (Gold - Team), 2011, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003
Junior World Championship Teams: 2001, 2000, 1999 (Bronze - Team)
Cadet World Championship Teams: 1998
In 2012, Thompson made history when he won gold at the World Team Championships where the U.S. Men’s Epee Team became the first U.S. Men’s Fencing Team ever to win gold at a Senior Worlds.
2006:

Ninth - Sydney World Cup
15th - Vancouver World Cup
19th - Senior World Championships (Team)
26th - Senior World Championships (Individual)
27th - Kuwait City World Cup
31st - Poitiers World Cup
40th - Tallinn World Cup
49th - Carolina Grand Prix
53rd - Heidenheim Grand Prix
61st - Doha Grand Prix
63rd - Legnano World Cup

2005:

10th - Buenos Aires World Cup
14th - Senior World Championships (Team)
19th - Tallinn World Cup
51st - Doha Grand Prix
54th - Bogota Grand Prix
63rd - Senior World Championships (Individual)

2004:

Silver - Buenos Aires World Cup
Sixth - Olympic Games (Team)
Seventh - Olympic Games (Individual)
15th - Berne World Cup
17th - Carolina World Cup
27th - Bratislava World Cup
51st - Lisbon Grand Prix
53rd - Vancouver Grand Prix

2003:

Fourth - Pan American Games (Team)
Eighth - Senior World Championships (Individual)
14th - Bratislava World Cup
18th - Senior World Championships (Team)
21st - Tunis Grand Prix
25th - Paris World Cup
31st - Carolina World Cup
62nd - Legnano World Cup

2001:

Ninth - Junior World Championships (Team)
29th - Junior World Championships (Individual)

2000:

11th - Junior World Championships (Individual)
13th - Junior World Championships (Team)

1999:

Bronze - Junior World Championships (Team)
21st - Junior World Championships (Individual)

1998:

34th - Cadet World Championships

Personal

After an injury kept Thompson out of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Princeton graduate chose to focus on starting a career, but in 2011 he returned to international competition determined to qualify for his second Olympic squad and improve on his seventh place finish at the Athens Games. Within six months, Thompson earned his first Grand Prix medal in Stockholm in May 2011 and solidified his spot on the 2012 team with a gold medal win at the Pan Am Championships and a top-16 finish at the 2011 Senior Worlds.

Turner Caldwell

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