Daryl Homer

Daryl Homer (born July 16, 1990) is an American right-handed saber fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.

[3] At the age of five, Homer moved to New York City with his mother and younger sister D’Meca, to an apartment on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx.

The program focuses on the health benefits, life skills, and exposure fencing can provide students in impoverished neighborhoods.

[citation needed] Homer started fencing at the age of 11, after happening on a picture of a masked fencer in the dictionary, and finding it "very cool".

[5] Homer was quickly identified as a talented athlete, and began working with four-time Olympic coach Yury Gelman immediately.

At the 2010 World Championships in Paris he defeated successively France's Boladé Apithy and Nicolas Lopez to reach the round of 16, and finished 12th.

Homer maintained this ranking in the next season thanks to three quarter-final placings in the World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2013 Pan American Championships.

Homer (R) scores from a flunge at the 2015 World Fencing Championships