Elizabeth Tartakovsky (born May 24, 2000) is an American saber fencer. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, in the Women's sabre and Women's team sabre on July 29 and August 3, 2024.
Early and personal life Tartakovsky was born on May 24, 2000, in Livingston, New Jersey, and is Jewish."TARTAKOVSKY Elizabeth," Olympics.com.Gabe Pulver, James Hirsh (July 23, 2024)."Here’s every Jewish athlete competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics," The Canadian Jewish News. Her parents are from Kyiv, Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s."Jewish fencers make up nearly a third of the 2024 US Olympic fencing team in Paris," JTA."American fencer Elizabeth Tartakovsky says representing US on Olympic stage a ‘special’ moment," Fox News."TARTAKOVSKY Elizabeth," FIE. Her great-uncle, and coach, is Ukrainian-born Jewish American seven-time Olympic fencing coach Yury Gelman, and her sister Gabrielle fenced for Harvard. Before fencing, she was a ballet skater. Tartakovsky speaks English, Russian, and Spanish."Livingston Fencer Elizabeth Tartakovsky Qualifies for 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris," TAPintoLivingston.
She graduated Livingston High School in 2018, after being a four-year varsity fencer and named First Team All-State in 2017. Tartakovsky then graduated Harvard University in 2023 with a degree in economics; while at the school she was named the 2019 Ivy League Individual Champion. In 2022 she was the Women's Sabre NCAA National Champion, NCAA Northeast Regional Women's Sabre Champion, All-America First Team, Women's Sabre Northeast Regional Champion, and USFCA National Collegiate Women's Sabre Athlete of the Year.
Fencing career In 2017, Tartakovsky was the bronze medalist in the World Cadets Fencing Championship. She was the Individual Ivy League Champion, and bronze medalist at the NCAA Championships in sabre in 2019.
Tartakovsky tied for bronze at the 2022 US Nationals in sabre. She was the women's sabre NCAA National Champion in 2022, and the silver medalist in 2023. At the 2023 Pan American Fencing Championship, she tied for third. At the 2024 Coupe de Monde, she again took third.
She will represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, at the Grand Palais in the Women's sabre and Women's team sabre on July 29 and August 3, 2024.
See also List of Jewish fencers NCAA fencing champions
References
External links