Erwann Le Péchoux

Erwann Lucien Édouard Le Péchoux (born 13 January 1982) is a French left-handed foil fencer. Le Péchoux is a five-time team European champion and four-time team world champion. A five-time Olympian, Le Péchoux is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist and 2021 team Olympic champion. Le Péchoux competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Biography Erwann Le Péchoux has three younger brothers, the eldest of whom, Hugo, is also a fencer and competes for the Cercle d'Escrime de Meyreuil in the Bouches-du-Rhône department.

He is married to Tunisian foil fencer Inès Boubakri, the bronze medallist in the women's individual foil at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Tunisia's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. His mother-in-law is Henda Zaouali, a former Tunisian international fencer who represented Tunisia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, competing in both the individual foil and individual épée events. As Tunisian law prohibited Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men until September 2017, Le Péchoux converted to Islam in order to marry Boubakri.

A left-handed fencer, he is nicknamed "Petit Homme" ("Little Man").

Career

Le Péchoux celebrating France's Olympic gold medal with supporters at the Trocadéro in Paris on 8 August 2021.

Le Péchoux took up fencing at the age of seven at the club in Gardanne.

Coaching career

After retiring from competition following the Tokyo Olympics, Le Péchoux was appointed coach of the Japanese men's national foil team in 2021, joining the coaching staff headed by fellow Frenchman Franck Boidin. Under his guidance, Japan won the team title at the 2023 World Championships in Milan, the nation's first world championship in the men's team foil event.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, he coached Japan to its first-ever Olympic title in the men's team foil event, defeating Italy 45–36 in the final.

Medal record Olympic Games

World Championship

European Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup