Catherine Bouwkamp
Paralympian 2012
Athlete Bio#
Height
5’2”
Age
28
Hometown
Fishers
Education
Fishers High School
Paralympic Experience
- 1-time Paralympian;
- Paralympic Games London 2012, 12th (Individual Foil A - Women)
Career Highlights
- 2012 USA Fencing National Championships, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
- 2012 March North American Cup, gold medal (Saber, Foil)
- 2012 Montreal Wheelchair Championship, bronze medal (Saber)
- 2011 Parapan American Games, gold medal (Foil), silver medal (Epee)
- 2011 USA Fencing National Championships, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
- 2011 North American Cup, gold medal (Epee, Foil)
- 2011 Malaga World Cup, tenth place (Epee)
- 2010 North American Cup, gold medal (Epee, Foil, Saber)
- 2010 Montreal Wheelchair Championship, bronze medal (Saber)
- 2010 Wheelchair World Championship, sixth place (Saber)
- 2009 Warsaw Wheelchair World Cup, bronze medal (Saber)
Facts: Daughter of Janet and Alan Bouwkamp... Currently a junior at Fishers High School... Began fencing at age 9 as a right-handed fencer and switched to left hand in the first year... Volunteers working with disabled persons through the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana and with underprivileged children in inner-city Cincinnati through her church... The same year she transitioned from able-boded to wheelchair fencing in 2009, she won a bronze medal at her first international competition in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 13... Top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and saber... Was one of the first U.S. athletes to qualify for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
Learn more:
US Wheelchair Fencing
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2019 – 9th (Team Epee - Women, Team Foil - Women, Team Sabre - Women), 27th (Individual Epee A - Women), 28th (Individual Sabre A - Women), 35th (Individual Foil A - Women)
- Years of participation: Individual Epee A - Women 2011, 2013, 2019; Individual Foil A - Women 2011, 2019; Individual Sabre A - Women 2010, 2019; Team Epee - Women 2013, 2019; Team Foil - Women 2019; Team Sabre - Women 2019; Individual Sabre - Women 2013
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2013 (Individual Sabre - Women)