Emily Jacobson

Emily Phillipa Jacobson (born December 2, 1985, in Decatur, Georgia) is an American Olympic sabre fencer. She won a bronze medal in the 2003 Pan American Games, and was 2004 Junior World Champion in women's saber.

Background Jacobson was born in Decatur, Georgia, and is Jewish. She is a daughter of David Jacobson, an endocrinologist who was a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber and also a former Yale fencer, and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively. She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer Sada Jacobson, born in February 1983. She graduated from Georgia State University College of Law and the Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business with a JD/MBA, in 2014.

Fencing career

World Championships, World Cups, Pan Am Games, and US & World Rankings

Jacobson finished 7th in saber at the 2001 World Championships. She won a team gold medal in sabre at the 2001 World Junior Team Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games.

At the 2004 Junior World Championships, she won gold medals in both the team and individual events.

In 2010, she won the National Championship in Women’s Sabre at the US Fencing National Championships.

Olympics She competed for the U.S. at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She reached the Round of 16, losing to Leonore Perrus of France, 15-13.

College career After high school, she ranked second nationally, and 11th in the world. At Columbia University, fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team Jacobson she was named first team All-American all four years that she competed.

Jacobson was the 2005 NCAA Champion. She won the women’s sabre title at the 2005 North American Cup, and secured the silver medal in sabre at the IFA Championships.