Victor Alvares de Oliveira

Victor Alvares de Oliveira (born 25 August 1996) is a foil fencer. Born in France, he qualified to represent Cape Verde at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Biography Alvares de Oliveira was born to a Cape Verdean father and a Spanish-Portuguese mother; he grew up in Reims, France, and has dual Cape Verdean-French citizenship. According to Olympics.com, he grew up with severe asthma and thus spent "large portions of his formative years in the confines of paediatric wards." rose through the fencing ranks and made the French national team. He moved to Paris to train further in fencing, with the goal of ultimately reaching the Olympics. He competed for Cape Verde at the Fencing Grand Prix in 2021, with hopes of qualifying for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics, although he did not qualify, with a loss to Salim Heroui in the final. Although unable to qualify for the Olympics that year, he participated at the African championships and won the silver medal.

Alvares de Oliveira competed for Cape Verde at the 2022 African championships and at the 2023 World Fencing Championships, where in foil he placed 78th out of 177 participants. He competed at the African Olympic qualifying tournaments in 2024, but finished sixth in foil due to an injury. He became the first Olympic fencer in Cape Verde's history.