Saskia Loretta van Erven Garcia

Saskia Loretta van Erven García
Personal information
Born (1987-08-09) 9 August 1987
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Fencing career
SportFencing
Weaponfoil
Handright-handed
ClubSchermCentrum Amsterdam / Valle del Cauca
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Representing  Colombia
Women's fencing
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place2015 TorontoIndividual foil

Saskia Loretta van Erven García (born August 29, 1987, in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch-Colombian female fencer.[1][2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's foil, and was defeated 9–14 in the second round by Carolin Golubytskyi.[3][4] She was also defeated in the second round of the 2016 Olympics, by Aida Mohamed, 15–12.

Van Erven García studied journalism in Amsterdam, while she trained at SchermCentrum Amsterdam. Although she was born and raised in the Netherlands, she changed her fencing nationality to her mother's country Colombia in 2011, and represented Colombia at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[5] Van Erven García's mother comes from Cali, Colombia.[6]

In 2018 she started training at Frascati Scherma, in Italy, where she was followed by Luca Papale[7] and Fabio Galli.[8]

She took up fencing at the age of 6 because her parents were involved in the sport.[9] Indeed, her mother, Gloria Garcia Pacheco, also represented Colombia internationally, winning a gold medal in the team foil at the 1971 Pan-American Games.[9]

She represented Colombia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Saskia Van Erven, una colombiana formada en Holanda para los Juegos". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Esgrimista colombiana Saskia Van Erven García se despide de JO". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  3. ↑ "Saskia Loretta Van Erven Garcia Profile". london2012.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "Primeras eliminaciones colombianas". Semana (in Spanish). 28 July 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  5. ↑ website (Dutch and Spanish) Schermnationaliteit (fencing nationality) "Daarvoor heb ik altijd voor Nederland geschermd, maar in juni 2011 heb ik mijn schermnationaliteit veranderd naar mijn moederland Colombia. De reden? Ik kan meer bereiken als Colombiaanse schermster."
  6. ↑ 8-days-for-the-olympics
  7. ↑ https://www.frascatischerma.it/la-van-erven-trionfa-ai-giochi-sudamericani/
  8. ↑ https://www.frascatischerma.it/campionati-panamericani-toldo-superstar-con-una-doppia-medaglia/
  9. 1 2 "Fencer - VAN ERVEN GARCIA Saskia Loretta - COLOMBIA - FIE - International Fencing Federation". fie.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  10. ↑ canalrcn.com (2021-03-29). "Estos son los deportistas colombianos clasificados a los Juegos Olímpicos Tokio 2020". Estos son los deportistas colombianos clasificados a los Juegos Olímpicos Tokio 2020 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-04-10.
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