Sara TAFFEL
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Sara TAFFEL: United States · Women’s Foil, 2004–2024. 57 recorded results. Get new results by email.
🇺🇸 USA · Fencers Club · Left-handed
About this fencer
FIE 26623 · USA 100058321
USA Fencing rating: Foil A2011
- Height
- 160 cm
USA Fencing classifications run from A to E; U means unrated. A year after the letter is the year that classification was earned.
Record and rankings
Counts cover published results recorded here. Verified source copies count once; other source records remain separate.
- Results
- 57
- Podiums
- 10
- Competitions won
- 6
- Fency Elo
- 1768 Foil as of 5 Nov 2026 Standing among established Fency ratings in the same weapon and gender, active this season or last.
- FIE ranking
- 132nd Senior Foil · 2023–24
- Best FIE ranking
- 123rd 2021–22
- Best finish
- 1st of 88, FIE Junior and Cadet World Championships, Tashkent 2015
Results
Results: 57
| When | Competition | Event | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Mar 2024 | FIE Grand Prix, Washington DC 2024FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 59th of 170 |
| 23 Feb 2024 | FIE World Cup, Cairo 2024FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 101st of 173 |
| 10 Feb 2024 | FIE Grand Prix, Turin 2024FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 72nd of 191 |
| 11 Jan 2024 | FIE World Cup, Paris 2024FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 42nd of 233 |
| 8 Dec 2023 | FIE World Cup, Novi Sad 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 126th of 216 |
| 2 Jun 2023 | FIE World Cup, Tbilisi 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 89th of 170 |
| 20 May 2023 | FIE Grand Prix, Shanghai 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 90th of 156 |
| 5 May 2023 | FIE World Cup, Plovdiv 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 78th of 201 |
| 18 Mar 2023 | FIE Grand Prix, Busan 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 97th of 128 |
| 24 Feb 2023 | FIE World Cup, Cairo 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 36th of 166 |
| 11 Feb 2023 | FIE Grand Prix, Turin 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 51st of 177 |
| 12 Jan 2023 | FIE World Cup, Paris 2023FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 130th of 212 |
| 9 Dec 2022 | FIE World Cup, Belgrade, December 2022FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 81st of 199 |
| 29 Apr 2022 | FIE World Cup, Tauberbischofsheim, April 2022FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | Not classified |
| 16 Apr 2022 | FIE World Cup, Belgrade, April 2022FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 45th of 170 |
| 25 Feb 2022 | FIE World Cup, Guadalajara 2022FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 62nd of 142 |
| 14 Jan 2022 | FIE World Cup, Poznan 2022FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 50th of 184 |
| 10 Dec 2021 | FIE World Cup, Saint-Maur 2021FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 45th of 184 |
| 17 Mar 2017 | FIE Grand Prix, Long Beach 2017FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 110th of 128 |
| 3 Feb 2017 | FIE World Cup, Gdansk 2017FIE | Senior Women’s Foil | 138th of 177 |
Videos
Cyrus of Chaos
· Table of 64 Individual bout Sara TAFFEL beat Marion ROUSSEAU, 15–11 FIE Grand Prix, Washington DC 2024 · Foil · 16 Mar 2024
Fencing Vision
· Table of 64 Individual bout Sera AZUMA beat Sara TAFFEL, 15–9 FIE Grand Prix, Washington DC 2024 · Foil · 16 Mar 2024
Fencing Vision
· Table of 64 Individual bout Flora PASZTOR beat Sara TAFFEL, 15–1 FIE World Cup, Belgrade, April 2022 · Foil · 16 Apr 2022
Head to head
Against left-handers 24–17 · right-handers 90–53, where the FIE says which hand they fence with. Left and right
Everyone they’ve met in events whose bouts are kept here, the most met first. Each goes to their bouts together.
| Against | Won | Lost | Last met | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anita BLAZE | 0 | 4 | 16 Mar 2024 | |
| Komaki KIKUCHI | 2 | 2 | 2 Jun 2023 | |
| Malina TEODOSIU | 2 | 2 | 11 Jan 2024 | |
| Kiyeun KIM | 1 | 2 | 12 Jan 2023 | |
| Olivia WOHLGEMUTH | 2 | 1 | 10 Feb 2024 |
Everyone they’ve met (140 more)
Figures
rating, ranking and how they fence
Over time
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As a table
| Season | Weapon | Rating | FIE ranking |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023–24 | Foil | 1,768 | 132nd Senior |
| 2022–23 | Foil | 1,747 | 151st Senior |
| 2021–22 | Foil | 1,781 | 123rd Senior |
| 2016–17 | Foil | 1,697 | 234th Senior |
| 2014–15 | Foil | 1,776 | 183rd Senior |
| 2013–14 | Foil | 1,600 | |
| 2012–13 | Foil | 1,578 | 162nd Senior |
| 2011–12 | Foil | 1,622 | |
| 2010–11 | Foil | 1,591 | |
| 2009–10 | Foil | 1,616 | 371st Senior |
| 2008–09 | Foil | 1,636 | |
| 2007–08 | Foil | 1,590 | |
| 2005–06 | Foil | 1,563 | |
| 2004–05 | Foil | 1,531 |
How ratings work · the best now
How they fence
| Stage | Won–lost | An average bout | By one touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pools | 87–50 64% | 4.1–3.1 | 18–19 |
| Tables | 27–20 57% | 12.9–10.8 | 0–4 |