Gerek Meinhardt
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 Gerek Meinhardt (2015) |
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 United States
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 Olympic games
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| bronze | Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Foil team |
 World championships
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| bronze | Paris 2010 | foil |
| silver | Budapest 2013 | Foil team |
| bronze | Moscow 2015 | foil |
| silver | Leipzig 2017 | Foil team |
| silver | Wuxi 2018 | Foil team |
| gold | Budapest 2019 | Foil team |
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Pan American Games
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| gold | Guadalajara 2011 | Foil team |
| silver | Toronto 2015 | foil |
| gold | Toronto 2015 | Foil team |
| gold | Lima 2019 | foil |
| gold | Lima 2019 | Foil team |
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Pan American Championships
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| bronze | Reno 2011 | foil |
| gold | Reno 2011 | Foil team |
| bronze | Cancun 2012 | foil |
| gold | Cancun 2012 | Foil team |
| gold | Cartagena 2013 | foil |
| gold | Cartagena 2013 | Foil team |
| gold | San José 2014 | foil |
| gold | San José 2014 | Foil team |
| bronze | Santiago de Chile 2015 | foil |
| gold | Santiago de Chile 2015 | Foil team |
| gold | Panama City 2016 | Foil team |
| bronze | Montreal 2017 | foil |
| gold | Montreal 2017 | Foil team |
| bronze | Havana 2018 | foil |
| gold | Havana 2018 | Foil team |
Gerek Lin Meinhardt (born July 27, 1990 in San Francisco ) is an American foil fencer .
successes
Gerek Meinhardt achieved numerous successes at the continental level. He has been the Pan-American Champion several times: in 2013 and 2014 he won the title in singles and from 2011 to 2018 eight times in a row with the team. With the team he also won gold three times at Pan American Games . He also won silver in Toronto in 2015 and gold in individual singles in Lima in 2019 . At world championships he won silver with the team in 2013 , 2017 and 2018 . In 2019 he finally won the title in Budapest . In singles he was able to place himself on the bronze place in Paris in 2010 and in Moscow in 2015 .
Meinhardt took part in the Olympic Games three times . In 2008 he was tenth in the singles in Beijing, at the 2012 Games in London he just missed winning a medal with the team. In the semi-finals the United States lost to Italy with 24:45, in the ensuing battle for bronze, Germany prevailed against the Americans with 45:27. At the games in Rio de Janeiro Meinhardt was fifth in the singles. In the quarterfinals he lost to Richard Kruse with 13:15. With the team, which in addition to Meinhardt also included Miles Chamley-Watson , Alexander Massialas and Race Imboden , he was eliminated again in the semifinals, this time against Russia at 41:45. In the battle for bronze, however, she remained victorious, she won 45:31 against Italy.
From 2013 to 2015 he studied business administration at the University of Notre Dame .
Web links
- Gerek Meinhardt - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
- Gerek Meinhardt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Meinhardt, Gerek |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meinhardt, Gerek Lin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American foil fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , United States |