JERENT Daniel

Personal Information

Residence Paris, FRA

Occupation Armed Forces Athlete

Languages French

License number 04061991001

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Sport Specific Information

When and where did you begin this sport? He began fencing at age eight in Guadeloupe.

Why this sport? He followed his older brother into the sport.

Club / Team Levallois SC: France

Name of coach Hugues Obry [national], FRA; Gauthier Grumier [national], FRA

Handedness Right

General Interest

Nicknames Dany (escrime-ffe.fr, 23 Feb 2014)

Most influential person in career His parents. (info-levallois.com, 10 Mar 2016)

Hero / Idol His older brother. (NOC Media Guide, 2016)

Injuries He was unable to compete at the 2022 Challenge Monal event in Paris, France, due to a foot injury. (la1ere.francetvinfo.fr, 18 Apr 2022)

He sustained a double femur fracture in a car accident in 2020. He underwent surgery and had a metal plate inserted into his left thigh. (lequipe.fr, 01 May 2020; Instagram profile, 28 Apr 2021)

A back injury forced him to withdraw from the 2018 European Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia. (lequipe.fr, 16 Jun 2018)

He sprained his ankle at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russian Federation. (centrepressaeyron.fr, 01 Aug 2013; guadeloupe.la1ere.fr, 12 Jul 2013)

Awards and honours He was named a Knight of the National Order of Merit in France in recognition of his performances at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (francsjeux.com, 02 Dec 2016; sport365.fr, 01 Dec 2016)

In 2008 he was presented with the Athlete of the Year award by Pointe Noire Municipal Journal in Guadeloupe. (villepointenoire.fr, 2008)

Other information OCCUPATION
He is a member of France's Gendarmerie, a military police force. (lessor.org, 19 Nov 2021; Gendarmerie Nationale Facebook page, 21 Feb 2021)

BROTHER
He took up fencing thanks to his older brother, who later joined the military and served in the Kosovo War in the late 1990s. Jerent has a tattoo on his left side of a prayer his brother wrote to him while on active service. "Since that day this prayer has accompanied me through life. I recite it before my matches or when things aren't going well. My brother means a lot to me." (rio2016.fie.org, 16 Mar 2016)

MISSED OLYMPICS
In June 2021 the French Fencing Federation removed him from the team selected for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as a precaution, as he was under investigation by the French Anti-Doping Agency [AFLD] after returning an adverse analytical finding for the prohibited substance dorzolamide in November 2020. He was not sanctioned by the AFLD after it was confirmed the substance had entered his body through blood transfusions he received while being treated for injuries sustained in a car accident in 2020. He returned to competition in November 2021. (Instagram profile, 23 Nov 2021; lequipe.fr, 18 Nov 2021, 17 Nov 2021, 18 Jun 2021; lessor.org, 19 Nov 2021)

SANCTION
He was suspended for one year by the French Anti-Doping Agency [AFLD] after failing three times to notify his whereabouts for out-of-competition tests between December 2017 and May 2018. His suspension ran from 23 May 2018. "This situation was due to negligence from me regarding the AFLD rules." (lequipe.fr, 17 May 2019; sport.francetvinfo.fr, 29 Jul 2018; ouest-france.fr, 14 Jun 2019)