Ellen Geddes
Sport: Wheelchair Fencing
Gold: 0 Silver: 0 Bronze: 0
Quick Facts
Birthday: July 4, 1988
Height: 5'10"
Age: 37
Hometown: Aiken, SC
Education: Presbyterian College ’10, Religion and Psychology
Biography
Quick Facts
- Lists winning double top eights in Kyoto in 2018 as her favorite fencing memory
- A former competitive equestrian, Geddes broke her back in a car accident in 2011 and suffered a complete spinal cord injury at T10
- While rehabbing at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Geddes met National Team member Dennis Aspy who inspired her to join Para fencing
- Won her first medal on the World Cup circuit in Montreal in 2014
- Within a year, Geddes had qualified for her first Wheelchair World Championship Team and in 2014 she won her first medal on the World Cup circuit in Montreal
- Her uncle is a role model because he was paralyzed at 17 and uses a wheelchair
- Owns about 30 horses and runs a breeding program with her business partner
Paralympic Experience
- 2-time Paralympian
- Paralympic Games Paris 2024, 6th (Team Foil - Women), 10th (Individual Epee B - Women, Individual Foil B - Women), 11th (Team Epee - Women)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 7th (Team Epee - Women), 8th (Team Foil - Women), 10th (Individual Foil B - Women), 11th (Individual Epee B - Women)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2025 – 8th (Team Foil - Women), 14th (Team Sabre - Women), 17th (Individual Foil B - Women), 21th (Individual Sabre B - Women)
- Years of participation: Individual Foil B - Women 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025; Individual Sabre B - Women 2025; Team Foil - Women 2019, 2023, 2025; Team Sabre - Women 2025; Individual Epee B - Women 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023; Team Epee - Women 2013, 2019
- Top finish: 8th – 2025 (Team Foil - Women)
