Name Saskia van Parents Gloria Garcia Pacheco Weight 64 kg | Height 1.70 m Role Olympic athlete | |
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Saskia Loretta van Erven García (Rotterdam, August 29, 1987) is a Dutch-Colombian female fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's foil, and was defeated 9-14 in the second round by Carolin Golubytskyi. She was also defeated in the second round of the 2016 Olympics, by Aida Mohamed, 15-12.
Van Erven García studies journalism at a university in Amsterdam, while she trains fencing at SchermCentrum Amsterdam. Although she was born and raised in the Netherlands, she changed her fencing nationality to her mother's country Colombia in 2011, and represented Colombia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Van Erven García's mother comes from Cali, Colombia.
She took up fencing at the age of 6 because her parents were involved in the sport. Indeed her mother, Gloria Garcia Pacheco, also represented Colombia internationally, winning a gold medal in the team foil at the 1971 Pan-American Games.