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.

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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)

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