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Ryan Estep

Sport: N/A

Gold: 0 Silver: 0 Bronze: 0

Quick Facts

Birthday: February 20, 1987

Height: 6’0”

Age: 38

Hometown: Florence,

Education: N/A

Biography

Paralympic Experience
  • 1-time Paralympian;
    • Paralympic Games London 2012, 11th (Individual Epee B - Men)
Career Highlights
  • 2012 Montreal Wheelchair World Cup, silver medal (epee)
  • 2012 U.S. Fencing National Wheelchair Championship, gold medal (foil, epee)
  • 2011 U.S. Fencing National Wheelchair Championship, silver medal (epee)
  • 2011 Wheelchair World Championship, seventh (epee)
  • Two-Time Wheelchair World Championship team member

Facts: Was a high school football standout generation college interest before a car accident put him in a wheelchair at 18... In November, 2009, he tried wheelchair fencing on a dare.... Currently ranked No. 1 wheelchair fencer in the U.S. and No. 3 in the world... Qualified for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London with a gold medal win at the Parapan American Games.

Learn more: 
US Wheelchair Fencing

World Championships Experience
  • Most recent: 2013 – 7th (Individual Epee B - Men), 8th (Team Sabre - Men), 12th (Team Epee - Men), 15th (Individual Sabre B - Men)
  • Years of participation: Individual Epee B - Men 2010, 2011, 2013; Individual Sabre B - Men 2013; Team Epee - Men 2010, 2011, 2013; Team Sabre - Men 2013; Individual Foil B - Men 2010, 2011; Team Foil - Men 2010
  • Top finish: 7th – 2011 (Individual Epee B - Men), 2013 (Individual Epee B - Men)