Soren Thompson

Soren Hunter Miles S Thompson[2] (born May 5, 1981) is an American épée fencer, team world champion, and two-time Olympian.

Thompson was born in San Diego, California, and attended Torrey Pines High School,[3][4] graduating in 1999.

in art and archaeology from Princeton University in 2005 after completing an 87-page-long senior thesis, titled "The San Diego School of Organic Architecture", under the supervision of Esther da Costa Meyer.

[9] Since 2015, Thompson has served as Vice President of Business Development of Daxor Corporation, a blood volume diagnostic company in New York City.

His coaches have included Alison Reid, Lisa Posthumus, Gago Demirchian, Yefim Litvan, Michel Sebastiani, Heizaburo Okawa, and Michael D'Asaro Sr.[6] Thompson attended Princeton University.

[1] Fencing at Princeton under Maître Michel Sebastiani, Thompson was the 2001 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Épée Champion, came in 2nd in 2002, and was 3rd in 2005.

In 2005, Princeton awarded Thompson the William Winston Roper Trophy, its highest honor for a male athlete.

[1] Thompson took 8th in the 2003 World Fencing Championships in Havana, Cuba, defeating top seed Ivan Kovacs of Hungary (15–14).

[28] At the 2012 World Fencing Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, in April 2012, Thompson won the gold medal for the team épée event, as part of the U.S. Men's Épée Team that won the first Senior World Championship fencing title for American men in history.

Thompson was eliminated in the round of 32 in the individual épée competition by Jörg Fiedler of Germany, the reigning European champion, finishing in 19th place.

[35][6] He subsequently won a team gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

[1] Thompson came in 2nd, winning the silver medal, at the 2004 Buenos Aires Senior Épée World Cup.

[41] Thompson appears in Impractical Jokers an American hidden camera-practical joke reality series, as a guest star.

Soren Thompson in 2013