Julien Mertine

Julien Mertine (born 26 June 1988) is a French right-

handed foil fencer, four-time team European Julien Mertine
champion, 2014 team world champion, and 2021 team
Olympic champion.[1]

Career

Mertine (R) on the podium at the

2014 European Championships
Personal information
Mertine took up fencing at the age of five with his Born 25 June 1988
father, a fencing master who trained amongst others Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
World champion Victor Sintès.[2] When he was France
eighteen he joined the centre for promising young
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
fencers at Châtenay-Malabry. He earned a team bronze
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships in
Prag and at the 2008 Junior World Championships in Sport
Acireale. In 2009 he was admitted into INSEP, a state- Country France
sponsored institution for high-performance athletes. Weapon Foil

Mertine climbed in 2010 his first World Cup podium Hand right-handed
with a bronze medal in Copenhague, and was selected National coach Franck Boidin
into the France national team as a reserve. His first Club CE Rueil-Malmaison / PF
competition with the team was the 2011 Challenge INSEP
International in Paris, in which France finished 5th.[3]
FIE ranking current ranking (https://fie.org/
117th in world rankings, Mertine won the Havana
athletes/17449)
World Cup that same season after defeating Italy's
Giorgio Avola in the final.[4] Medal record
Olympic Games
In the 2012–13 season, he earned a bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Team
Seoul World Cup and in the Tokyo Grand Prix, but
2024 Paris Team
ceded to Belarus' Siarhei Byk in the first round of the
European Championships in Zagreb.[5] In the team World Championships
event, France was overcome by Great Britain in the 2014 Kazan Team foil
first round. At the World Championships in Budapest 2019 Budapest Team foil
Mertine defeated Great Britain's Richard Kruse in the 2017 Leipzig Team foil
first round, but was then beaten by Heo Jun of South
European Championships
Korea. He was replaced in the team event by Enzo
Lefort. He finished the season No.19, his best ranking 2014 Strasbourg Team Foil
as of 2014. 2015 Montreux Team Foil
2017 Tbilisi Team Foil
In the 2013–14 season Mertine won the national
2019 Düsseldorf Team foil
French championships after defeating successively
Enzo Lefort and Erwann Le Péchoux.[6] At the 2024 Basel Team foil

European Championships in Strasbourg he lost 14–15

in the table of 16 to Alexander Choupenitch of the Czech Republic.[7] In the team event France defeated
the Czech Republic and Italy before prevailing over Italy, allowing Mertine to win his first gold medal in
a major event.[8] At the World Championships in Kazan he was defeated 13–15 in the preliminary table of
64 by Israel's Tomer Or after leading 13–7.[9] In the team event France defeated Russia in the semi-finals
and proceeded to crush China to earn the world title.[10]

Mertine passed his fencing master certificate when he was nineteen. He now teaches fencing at his own
club in Rueil-Malmaison and at CE Orgeval-Villennes.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year Location Event Position

Tokyo, Team Men's

2021 1st[11]
Japan Foil

World Championship

Year Location Event Position

Kazan, Team
2014 1st[12]
Russia Men's Foil

Leipzig, Team
2017 3rd[13]
Germany Men's Foil
Budapest, Team
2019
Hungary Men's Foil 2nd[14]
European Championship

Year Location Event Position

Strasbourg, Team
2014 1st[15]
France Men's Foil

Montreux, Team
2015 1st[16]
Switzerland Men's Foil

Tbilisi, Team
2017 1st[17]
Georgia Men's Foil
Düsseldorf, Team
2019 1st[18]
Germany Men's Foil

Grand Prix

Date Location Event Position

Tokyo, Individual
05/04/2013 3rd[19]
Japan Men's Foil

Individual
03/15/2019 Anaheim, 1st[20]
Men's Foil
California

World Cup

Date Location Event Position

Individual
01/16/2010 Copenhagen, Men's 3rd[21]
Denmark Foil

Individual
Havana,
06/29/2012 Men's 1st[22]
Cuba
Foil

Seoul, Individual
04/26/2013 Men's 3rd[23]
South Korea
Foil
Individual
Paris,
01/19/2018 Men's 3rd[24]
France
Foil

Individual
Bonn,
11/08/2019 Men's 1st[25]
Germany
Foil

References
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e-saint-denis/les-maitres-du-savoir-10-12-2005-2006550719.php). Le Parisien (in French).
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me-a-paris/174978). L'Équipe (in French). 30 January 2011.
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ons-monde/fleuret-hommes-a-la-havane-julien-mertine-l-emporte). French Fencing
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External links
Julien Mertine (https://fie.org/athletes/17449) at the International Fencing Federation
Profile (http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/julien-mertine) at the European
Fencing Championships

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