Matthieu
Hébert

Matthieu Hébert made his major Games debut in Rio and earned a 10th place finish in the men’s A epee event. Hébert started fencing as a youngster and at age 13 he suffered an injury which caused one leg to be shorter than the other. He didn’t compete in the sport for many years after that, and incredibly only decided to return to fencing less than three years before the Rio Games, first in able-bodied competition. It was wheelchair fencing national coach Iulian Badea who discovered Hébert had a disability and suggested he try the wheelchair version.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2016 Paralympic Games… Third place finishes in 2015 and 2016 at the Americas Cup…

PERSONAL
Works in technological research engineering with Nuance Communications …Graduated in physics theory at the University of Sherbrooke with a post Grad at the University of Paris… father of three adult children…

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

• 2019 World Championships team sabre 9th, team epee 10th
• 2018 Americas Cup sabre 1st foil 2nd, epee 3rd
• 2018 World Championships team sabre 8th
• 2016 Paralympic Games epee eliminated in preliminaries
• 2016 World Cup (POL) foil 16th
• 2016 Americas Cup epee 3rd
• 2015 Americas Cup epee 3rd
• 2015 Americas Cup foil 3rd
• 2015 World Cup epee 10th 
• 2014 Grand Prix foil 8th