Ellen Geddes

Quick Facts

• Lists winning double top eights in Kyoto in 2018 as her favorite fencing memory
• A former competitive equestrian, Geddes broke her back in a car accident in 2011 and suffered a complete spinal cord injury at T10
• While rehabbing at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Geddes met National Team member Dennis Aspy who inspired her to join Para fencing
• Won her first medal on the World Cup circuit in Montreal in 2014
• Within a year, Geddes had qualified for her first Wheelchair World Championship Team and in 2014 she won her first medal on the World Cup circuit in Montreal
• Her uncle is a role model because he was paralyzed at 17 and uses a wheelchair
• Owns about 30 horses and runs a breeding program with her business partner

Paralympic Experience

• 2-time Paralympian
• Paralympic Games Paris 2024, 6th (Team Foil - Women), 10th (Individual Epee B - Women, Individual Foil B - Women), 11th (Team Epee - Women)
• Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 7th (Team Epee - Women), 8th (Team Foil - Women), 10th (Individual Foil B - Women), 11th (Individual Epee B - Women)

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2025 – 8th (Team Foil - Women), 14th (Team Sabre - Women), 17th (Individual Foil B - Women), 21th (Individual Sabre B - Women)
• Years of participation: Individual Foil B - Women 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025; Individual Sabre B - Women 2025; Team Foil - Women 2019, 2023, 2025; Team Sabre - Women 2025; Individual Epee B - Women 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023; Team Epee - Women 2013, 2019
• Top finish: 8th – 2025 (Team Foil - Women)