Nick Itkin – Fencing

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025 World Championships: Silver (Team)
  • 2025 Vancouver World Cup: Gold (Team)
  • 2025 Lima Grand Prix: Bronze (Individual)
  • 2024 Olympic Games: Bronze (Individual)
  • 2023 World Championships: Silver (Individual) – only U.S. male fencer to win back-to-back World medals
  • 2023 Pan American Games: Gold (Individual), Gold (Team)
  • 2022 World Championships: Bronze (Individual), Silver (Team)
  • 2022 Tokyo World Cup: Gold (Team)
  • 2022 Pan American Championships: Gold (Team), Bronze (Individual)
  • 2021 U.S. National Championships: Gold (Individual)
  • 2020 Olympic Games: Bronze (Team)
  • 2019 Pan American Championships: Gold (Team)
  • 2019 ACC Fencer of the Year
  • 2018 & 2019 NCAA Champion (Individual)
  • 2018 U.S. National Championships: Gold (Individual)
  • 2018 Junior World Championships: Gold (Individual), Bronze (Team)
  • 2017 Junior World Championships: Gold (Team)

BACKGROUND

Nick came about the sport of fencing in a rather natural way. His father opened a fencing club in Los Angeles in 2003 where Nick still fences today under his father’s direction. Nick received his athletic prowess from his parents, his mother was a Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast and his father was an elite Ukrainian fencer.


Quickly rising through the ranks, in 2018 he became the first American fencer to win Junior World, US Fencing Division I and NCAA titles in the same season. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, he was the youngest American fencer, and helped Team USA to a Bronze medal.
Most recently he won an individual Silver at the 2023 World Championships becoming the first American male to win back-to-back medals at World Championships.


Nick graduated from the University of Notre Dame where he studied Political Science. He was the second men’s fencer to win back-to-back National Championships in program history. He has a goal to make the sport more well-known and available to the general
public. Nick strongly identifies with his Ukrainian background, both his parents and sister are from Lviv, Ukraine. He has run clinics and set up charity donations to help Ukrainian fencers. Nick is fluent in both English and Russian and has a passion for growing the sport, clothing, fitness, travel, and nutrition.