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DE ALMEIDA Dominic

foil
Rank210
Pts3.875
Age26
HandR
LicenseValid

Personal Information

Occupation Athlete, Coach

Languages English

Higher education Psychology - Goldsmiths, University of London: England

License number 13021999001

Club ZFW

Sport Specific Information

When and where did you begin this sport? He began training at Fighting Fit Fencing in London, England, at age nine.

Why this sport? "I never really took fencing seriously until the [2012] London Olympics or maybe the year after. It was just something I did twice a week for a laugh. Then the coach sat us down and told us to stop doing everything else except fencing. I didn't really have a choice – the next day I didn't go back to football and I wasn't happy with him for a long time. But the next year I won every tournament I entered in my age group and I haven't looked back."

Club / Team ZFW Fencing Club: London, ENG

Name of coach Ziemowit Wojciechowski [club], POL

Handedness Right

General Interest

Nicknames Dragon, Dom (zfw-fencing.co.uk, 21 Nov 2021; islingtongazette.co.uk, 18 Feb 2016)

Memorable sporting achievement Winning gold in individual foil at the 2022 British Championships in Sheffield, England. (Instagram profile, 07 Jun 2022)

Awards and honours In 2015 he was named Sportsman of the Year at the Sport Islington Awards in London, England. (islingtongazette.co.uk, 16 Jul 2015)

Other information PSYCHOLOGY
He has studied psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and says that working with psychologists as a teenager had a transformative effect on his confidence as a fencer. "Technically I was all right, but psychologically I was awful. I think the pressure was too much, to be honest. I let it get to me and I had a low point trying to get my confidence back. So I visited a psychologist, a friend of my dad's, and the psychologist at my club also helped. It literally changed from one day to the next and psychology went from being my worst aspect to my best." (goldsmithssu.org, 01 Jan 2018; islingtongazette.co.uk, 16 Jul 2015)

COACHING
He has coached at ZFW Fencing Club in London, England. (zfw-fencing.co.uk, 26 Nov 2021)

Statistics

rank
points
season
65th (C)
0.000
2015/2016
1st (C)
0.000
2014/2015
210th (S)
3.875
2024/2025
289th (S)
1.250
2022/2023
72nd (S)
17.000
2021/2022
252nd (S)
1.875
2020/2021
254th (S)
1.875
2019/2020
261st (S)
1.625
2018/2019
353rd (S)
0.000
2017/2018
467th (S)
0.000
2016/2017
356th (S)
0.000
2015/2016
539th (S)
0.000
2014/2015
40th (J)
36.000
2018/2019
90th (J)
17.000
2017/2018
158th (J)
7.500
2016/2017
200th (J)
6.000
2015/2016
333rd (J)
0.000
2014/2015
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