{{Short description|American fencer (born 1990)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox fencer | name = Daryl Homer | image = Daryl Homer 2015 WCh SMS-IN t204617.jpg | caption = Homer at 2015 World Championships | birth_name = | full_name = Daryl D. Homer | nickname = | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|7|16}} | birth_place = Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | weapon = Sabre | hand = right-handed | height = {{cvt|1.71|m|0|order=flip}} | weight = {{cvt|85|kg|0|order=flip}} | natlcoach = Yury Gelman | formercoach = | club = | headcoach = | country = {{USA}} | retired = | fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/14997 current ranking] | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's sabre}} {{MedalCountry|the {{USA}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Individual}} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalSilver | 2015 Moscow | Individual }} {{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }} {{MedalGold| 2015 Toronto | Team }} {{MedalGold| 2019 Lima | Individual }} {{MedalGold| 2019 Lima | Team }} {{MedalCompetition | Pan American Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2010 San José | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2011 Reno | Individual }} {{MedalGold | 2011 Reno | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2012 Cancún | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2013 Cartagena | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2014 San José | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2016 Panama City | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2017 Montréal | Individual }} {{MedalGold | 2017 Montréal | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2018 Havana | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2019 Toronto | Team }} {{MedalGold | 2022 Asunción | Individual }} {{MedalGold | 2022 Asunción | Team }} {{MedalSilver | 2015 Santiago | Individual }} {{MedalSilver | 2019 Toronto | Individual }} {{MedalBronze | 2013 Cartagena | Individual }} {{MedalBronze | 2014 San José | Individual }} {{MedalBronze | 2018 Havana | Individual }} | show-medals = yes }}
'''Daryl D. Homer''' (born July 16, 1990) is an American right-handed saber fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/athletes/14997 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref>
Homer competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/homer-daryl-1131268/ |title=Daryl Homer |work=2012 Summer Olympics |accessdate=August 31, 2012 |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128134230/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/homer-daryl-1131268/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Homer is a ten-time team Pan American champion and three-time individual Pan American champion.
==Personal life== Homer was born on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Juliette Smith and Daryl Homer.<ref name="HP">{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-hannan/how-to-chase-a-gold-medal_b_7067274.html |title=How to Chase a Gold Medal and Grow a 401K: Olympian Daryl Homer |author=Maureen Hannan |work=The Huffington Post |date=April 15, 2015}}</ref> At the age of five, Homer moved to New York City with his mother and younger sister D’Meca, to an apartment on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx. Homer attended Public School 21 there before going to Salesian High School<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org:443/usa-fencing/athletes/Daryl-Homer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731024713/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-fencing/athletes/Daryl-Homer |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 31, 2015 |title=Daryl Homer |website=Team USA |language=en |access-date=April 5, 2019}}</ref> in New Rochelle. He eventually graduated from St. John's University, with a degree in advertising communications. He now works for advertising and marketing agency Anomaly.<ref name="HP" />
Homer speaks to inner city youth about balancing his career with his athletic passions. He is a brand ambassador at Fencing in the Schools, a non-profit that aims to enrich the lives of students in the inner city through fencing. The program focuses on the health benefits, life skills, and exposure fencing can provide students in impoverished neighborhoods.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
==Fencing career== Homer started fencing at the age of 11, after happening on a picture of a masked fencer in the dictionary, and finding it "very cool".<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |url=http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/young-aggressive-and-quick-with-a-point/?_r=0 |title=Young, Aggressive and Quick With a Point |author=Liz Belilovskaya |work=2012 London Olympics NYT blog |date=July 26, 2012}}</ref> He joined the Peter Westbrook Foundation in New York City, a program dedicated to exposing inner city youth to fencing started by six-time Olympian and 1984 Olympic bronze medalist Peter Westbrook.<ref name="HP"/> Homer chose saber because Westbrook himself had been a sabreur.<ref name="NYT" />
Homer was quickly identified as a talented athlete, and began working with four-time Olympic coach Yury Gelman immediately. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Cadet World Fencing Championships, and another bronze at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Belfast. That same year he competed in his first senior World Championships in Antalya, finishing 23rd, and took the NCAA title as a sophomore.
In the 2009–10 season Homer defended successfully his NCAA title. At the 2010 World Championships in Paris he defeated successively France's Boladé Apithy and Nicolas Lopez to reach the round of 16, and finished 12th. The next season, he won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Championships.
He redshirted the following season to train for the 2012 Summer Olympics, for which he qualified as a member of the top-ranked team of the Americas zone. In the individual event he defeated 15–9 Romania's Tiberiu Dolniceanu in the first round, then had a narrow 15–14 victory of world No. 2, Russia's Aleksey Yakimenko. He lost 15–14 in the quarter-finals to another Romanian, Rareș Dumitrescu, and finished sixth.<ref name="SR">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/daryl-homer-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230928/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/daryl-homer-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Daryl Homer Olympic results |website=Sports Reference |accessdate=April 17, 2015}}</ref> In the team event, the USA lost to Russia in the quarter-finals and finished eighth.<ref name="SR" /> He finished the 2011–12 season no. 12 in FIE rankings.
[[File:Dolniceanu v Homer 2015 WCh SMS-IN t193059.jpg|thumb|Homer (R) scores from a flunge at the 2015 World Fencing Championships]] Homer maintained this ranking in the next season thanks to three quarter-final placings in the World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2013 Pan American Championships. He placed 11th at the end of the 2013–14 season. In the 2014–15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in the Seoul Grand Prix.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eurosport.com/fencing/liimbach-and-kharlan-take-sabre-gold-at-south-korea-fencing-grand-prix_sto4661165/story.shtml |title=Limbach and Kharlan take sabre gold at South Korea Fencing Grand Prix |work=Eurosport |date=April 1, 2015}}</ref>
As of July 1, 2016, he was ranked #2 in the United States, behind Team USA teammate Eli Dershwitz.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/8/10/eli-dershwitz-harvard-olympics-2016/ |title=Eli Dershwitz | Sports | The Harvard Crimson |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
He competed for the United States in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/miles-chamley-watson-daryl-homer-aim-fencing-gold-rio-article-1.2714352 |title=New Yorkers Miles Chamley-Watson, Daryl Homer use different styles in quest for fencing gold at Rio Olympics |first=Jacqueline |last=Cutler |website=nydailynews.com}}</ref> He won the silver medal.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2016/08/10/american-daryl-homer-wins-historic-medal-sabre-fencing/88542406/ |title=American Daryl Homer wins historic silver in men's sabre fencing |first=Christine |last=Brennan |website=USA Today}}</ref> He became the first U.S. medalist in men's saber since Peter Westbrook won a bronze medal in 1984 and the first U.S. men's silver medalist since William Grebe in 1904. The U.S. has never won gold in men's saber.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160814201833/http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/August/10/Daryl-Homer-Scores-Team-USAs-First-Mens-Saber-Silver-Since-1904 Daryl Homer Scores Team USA's First Men's Saber Silver Since 1904] teamusa.org</ref> Shortly after his Olympic silver medal, he left long-time coach Yury Gelman and the Manhattan Fencing Center for another coach.
He qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.
== Medal record ==
=== Olympic Games === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Year ! style="width:17em" |Location ! style="width:12em" |Event !Position |- |2016 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2016/246?tab=results |access-date=May 11, 2021 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |}
=== World Championship === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Year ! style="width:17em" |Location ! style="width:12em" |Event !Position |- |2015 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow, Russia |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/246 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |}
=== Grand Prix === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Date ! style="width:17em" |Location ! style="width:12em" |Event !Position |- |2015-03-28 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|KOR}} Seoul, South Korea |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/165 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |}
=== World Cup === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Date ! style="width:17em" |Location ! style="width:12em" |Event !Position |- |2016-11-04 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|SEN}} Dakar, Senegal |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/164 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2018-05-18 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ESP}} Madrid, Spain |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/474 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2025-01-26 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BUL}} Plovdiv, Bulgaria |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=26 Jan 2025 world cup |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2025/759?tab=results |access-date=January 26, 2025 |website=International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |- |2025-03-08 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Padua, Italy |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=08 Mar 2025 world cup |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2025/758?tab=results |access-date=March 8, 2025 |website=International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |}
=== Pan American Championship === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Date ! style="width:17em" |Location ! style="width:12em" |Event !Position |- |2010 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} San José, Costa Rica |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2010/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2011 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|USA}} Reno, Nevada |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2011/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2011 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|USA}} Reno, Nevada |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2011/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2012 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|MEX}} Cancún, Mexico |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2012/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2013 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|COL}} Cartagena, Colombia |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2013/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2013 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|COL}} Cartagena, Colombia |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=21 Jun 2013 zone championships |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2013/808?tab=results |access-date=June 21, 2013 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2014 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} San José, Costa Rica |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2014 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} San José, Costa Rica |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=06 Jun 2014 zone championships |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/808?tab=results |access-date=June 6, 2014 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2015 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CHI}} Santiago, Chile |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- | rowspan="1" |2016 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|PAN}} Panama City, Panama |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2016/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2017 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CAN}} Montreal, Canada |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2017 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CAN}} Montreal, Canada |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2018 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CUB}} Havana, Cuba |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2018 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CUB}} Havana, Cuba |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2019 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CAN}} Toronto, Canada |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2019 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CAN}} Toronto, Canada |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2022 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|Paraguay}} Asunción, Paraguay |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2022/802 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |- |2022 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|Paraguay}} Asunción, Paraguay |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website |url=http://fie.org/competitions/2022/808 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=FIE.org}}</ref> |}
==See also== *List of USFA Division I National Champions *List of NCAA fencing champions
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIE}} * {{Team USA|new_id=daryl-homer-838271|old_id=HO/Daryl-Homer|archive=20230318123328}} * {{Olympics.com|daryl-homer}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Instagram}} * [http://www.fencingintheschools.org/ Fencing in the Schools] program
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