CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In international competition this past weekend, three Harvard fencers took home medals with USA Fencing. Senior Elizabeth Tartakovsky, senior Mitchell Saron, and assistant coach and graduate Eli Dershwitz all earned silver medals in the first sabre team events of the Paris 2024 Olympics qualification window.
 
Tartakovsky and first-year Zoe Kim competed at the Batumi Women's Sabre World Cup held in Batumi, Georgia, with Tartakovsky earning silver in the senior women's sabre team event. Tartakovsky placed 18^th in the individual competition, while Kim finished 77^th..
 
Saron and Dershwitz were part of the silver medal winning team at the Madrid Men's Sabre World Cup held in Madrid, Spain. Saron took 14^th and Dershwitz placed 34^th in the individual competition as USA Fencing's top two finishers. In addition, senior Filip Dolegiewicz competed at the event, placing 48^th overall in the individual competition.
 
In addition, sophomore Lauren Scruggs was named National Collegiate Women's Foil Athlete of the Year, and junior Jonas Hansen was named National Collegiate Men's Epee Athlete of the Year by the United States Fencing Coaches Association.
 
Scruggs was the 2023 women's foil NCAA champion, the seventh NCAA individual champion in school history and the first Crimson women's foilist to win the title since Alexandra Kiefer in 2014. Hansen was the 2023 men's epee NCAA champion, the Crimson's eighth individual national champion in school history on the men's side. He is also the third Crimson epee national champion in school history, and the first since Benjamin Ungar in 2009.