Daryl Homer

Daryl D. Homer (born July 16, 1990) is an American right-handed saber fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.

Homer competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

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. 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 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. 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. In the team event, the USA lost to Russia in the quarter-finals and finished eighth.

As of July 1, 2016, he was ranked #2 in the United States, behind Team USA teammate Eli Dershwitz.

He competed for the United States in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal. 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. 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

World Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

Pan American Championship