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| She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer ], born in February ]. She also has a younger sister, Jackie, who was born February 26, ], who is also a world-class fencer. | |||
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Emily Jacobson (born December 2, 1985) is a Jewish American sabre fencer.
Background
Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber, and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively.
She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer Sada Jacobson, born in February 1983. She also has a younger sister, Jackie, who was born February 26, 1989, who is also a world-class fencer.
Jacobson graduated from Westminster High School in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2004.
She started attending Columbia University in the fall of 2004.
Fencing career
World Championships, Pan Am Games, and US & World Rankings
She emerged onto the world stage in 2001 at the age of 15, when she finished 7th in saber at the World Championships. She won a team gold medal in sabre at the 2001 World Junior Team Championships.
She was ranked No. 2 in 2003 among female junior and senior U.S. saber fencers (her sister Sada was No. 1).
She won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games.
She then captured gold medals at the 2004 Junior World Championships, in both the team and individual events.
Olympics
Like her older sister, Sada Jacobson, Emily competed for the U.S. at the 2004 Olympics in the inaugural women's saber event. She reached the Round of 16, where she lost to Leonore Perrus of France, 15-13.
Award
Jacobson received the 2002 Jules D. Mazor Award, as the Jewish High School Athlete of the year, from the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (in Commack, New York).
Miscellaneous
- Jacobson and her sister Sada have been compared to the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena), who have dominated women's professional tennis.
- The Jacobson sisters haven't faced each other since a junior World Cup that Emily won in Budapest, Hungary, in January 2002.
- She trains and competes with the Nellya Fencers local club team.
- Her club coach, Arkady Burdan, is a former Soviet fencer and coach who left the Soviet Union in 1989 as a Jewish refugee, and eventually settled in Atlanta.
- She trains: “Four hours a day, six days a week, 52 weeks a year. Fortunately or unfortunately, there is no off-season in this sport,” said her father.