{{Short description|Canadian fencer (born 1987)}} {{Infobox fencer |name = Philippe Beaudry |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|03|16|mf=yes}} |birth_place = Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = | weapon = sabre | hand = right-handed | height = {{convert|1.83|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | natlcoach = Dmitry Ronzhin | formercoach = | club = | headcoach = Jean-Marie Banos | country = | retired = | fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/7753 current ranking] | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's sabre}} {{MedalCountry|{{CAN}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold| 2011 Guadalajara | Individual}} {{MedalGold| 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Individual}} {{MedalSilver| 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Team}} {{MedalSilver| 2011 Guadalajara | Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 2014 San José | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| 2008 Querétaro | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| 2009 San Salvador | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| 2010 San José | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| 2011 Reno, Nevada | Individual}} {{MedalBronze| 2013 Cartagena | Individual}} }}
thumb | right | Beaudry, right, at the 2013 World Fencing Championships '''Philippe Beaudry''' (born March 16, 1987) is a Canadian Olympic sabre fencer, twice Pan American champion and eleven-time national champion, both at the junior and senior levels.
==Career == Beaudry's father Paul was a top-level fencer, who qualified to compete in the 1980 Summer Olympics, but was prevented from taking part because of Canada's boycott of the Games. Beaudry's parents met at a fencing class his father was teaching at Université de Montréal.<ref name="PC08">{{cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/sports/200809/08/01-657105-la-route-de-philippe-beaudry-a-ete-parsemee-dembuches.php|title=La route de Philippe Beaudry a été parsemée d'embûches|author=Marc Delbès|publisher=Presse Canadienne|date=14 July 2008}}</ref> Despite this Beaudry was not pressured into fencing. His first sport was basketball, but he never was passionate about it. At the age of thirteen, after his family came back from Lebanon, where they had spent part of his childhood, he tried fencing because it was offered at his high school and immediately took to the sport.<ref name="PC08" />
Beaudry made his breakthrough in the 2006–07 season. He won the bronze medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Belek after being defeated in the semifinals by Korea's Park Young-jun.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lebulletin.net/Sports-divers/Sports-aquatiques/2007-04-25/article-748832/Le-bronze-pour-Philippe-Beaudry/1|title=Le bronze pour Philippe Beaudry|author=Mathieu Boulay|newspaper=Le Bulletin|date=25 April 2007|language=French|access-date=7 February 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150209125808/http://www.lebulletin.net/Sports-divers/Sports-aquatiques/2007-04-25/article-748832/Le-bronze-pour-Philippe-Beaudry/1|archive-date=9 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He won the gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, prevailing in the final over USA's James Williams.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2007/07/18/montreal_fencer_wins_gold_in_individual_sabre.html|title=Montreal fencer wins gold in individual sabre|author=Marc Delbès|publisher=Canadian Press|date=18 July 2007}}</ref>
In the 2007–08 season, Beaudry won his ticket to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by finishing first in the Americas qualifier in Querétaro.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rds.ca/1.172833|title=Beaudry se qualifie pour Pékin|publisher=Sportcom|date=26 April 2008|language=French}}</ref> He won the bronze medal in the Pan American Championships also held in Querétaro. For his début Olympics Beaudry won his first bout 15–8 against Egypt's Gamal Fathy, but lost 4–15 in the second round to 2004 Olympic champion Aldo Montano of Italy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=4370e29e-2543-4571-81f9-c98659650232 |title=Beaudry bows out in round of 32 |publisher=Canwest News Service |date=12 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520143512/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=4370e29e-2543-4571-81f9-c98659650232 |archivedate=20 May 2015 }}</ref>
In 2010 Beaudry was injured when a speeding driver crashed into his car while he was stopped at a red light. He got out of the accident with only a few cuts to his right wrist, but the psychological trauma caused him to take a four-month pause, during which he focused on his studies at the John Molson School of Business of Concordia University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/sujet/olympiques-londres-2012/2012/07/26/012-philippe-beaudry-portrait.shtml|title=Philippe Beaudry alias le taureau|publisher=Radio Canada|date=26 July 2012|language=French}}</ref>
After he got back to training, Beaudry claimed his fourth bronze medal in a row at the 2011 Pan American Championships in Reno, Nevada after losing in the semifinals to USA's Daryl Homer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thetelegram.com/Sports/2011-07-11/article-2638214/Philippe-Beaudry-touche-encore-le-bronze/1|title=Philippe Beaudry touche encore le bronze|author=Thierry Bourdeau|newspaper=The Telegram|date=11 July 2011}}</ref> A few months later he reached the table of 16 at the World Championships in Catania, defeating first France's Boladé Apithy, then Belarus' Valery Pryiemka, but he suffered another drubbing at Montano's hands.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rds.ca/1.438694|title=Escrime : une première pour Beaudry|publisher=Sportcom|date=11 October 2011|language=French}}</ref> A few days later Beaudry successfully defended his title at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara after defeating in the final USA's Tim Morehouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cp24.com/beaudry-defends-fencing-title-paddlers-win-gold-games-1.717145|title=Beaudry defends fencing title, paddlers win gold|publisher=The Associated Press|date=26 October 2011}}</ref> He proved the only fencer from outside the United States to win a gold medal. His World Cup results pushed him to a No.21 world ranking at the end of the season, a career best as of 2015.
Beaudry qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as the second-ranked fencer from the Americas. He received a bye in the first round, then lost 12–15 to Belarus' Dmitry Lapkes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/sujet/olympiques-londres-2012/2012/07/29/009-escrime-sabre-beaudry.shtml|title=Beaudry frappe un mur|publisher=Radio Canada|date=29 July 2012|language=French}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417172345/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/philippe-beaudry-1.html Olympic results] at Sports Reference
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