Team USA Finishes Competition at 2023 Pan-American Senior Championships

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.
 

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)

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)

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)

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)

Gold: Lee Kiefer (Bluegrass Fencers Club)

Silver: Maia Weintraub (Fencers Club/Princeton Fencing)

Bronze: Jessica Zi Jia Guo (CAN)

Bronze: Lauren Scruggs (Peter Westbook Foundation/Harvard Fencing)

5th: Eleanor Harvey (CAN)

6th: Jackie Dubrovich (New Jersey Fencing Alliance)

Gold: Andrew Doddo (New Jersey Fencing Alliance/Columbia Fencing)

Silver: Jose Quintero (VEN)

Bronze: Eliecer Romero (VEN)

Bronze: Pascual Maria Di Tella (ARG)

5th: Mitchell Saron (Harvard Fencing/Bergen Fencing Club)

6th: Fares Arfa (CAN)

7th: Eli Dershwitz (Tim Morehouse Fencing Club)

8th: Shaul Gordon (CAN)

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17th: Colin Heathcock (Manhattan Fencing Club)

Gold: USA

Silver: Canada

Bronze: Brazil

4th: Mexico

5th: Venezuela 

6th: Argentina 

Gold: USA

Silver: Canada

Bronze: Chile

4th: Mexico

5th: Brazil

6th: Argentina

Gold: Venezuela

Silver: Colombia

Bronze: Canada

4th: Argentina

5th: Cuba

6th: Chile

*Team USA was excluded from competition

Gold: USA

Silver: Mexico

Bronze: Venezuela

4th: Argentina

5th: Canada 

6th: Colombia

Gold: Canada

Silver: USA

Bronze: Mexico

4th: Chile

5th: Venezuela 

6th: Brazil

Gold: USA

Silver: Canada

Bronze: Venezuela

4th: Chile

5th: Colombia

6th: Argentina