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Hand
  
right-handed

Height
  
1.75 m

Children
  
Gaia Ortolina

Role
  
Teacher

Weapons
  
Epee

Name
  
Sherraine Schalm

FIE Ranking
  
rankings

Weight
  
60 kg


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Born
  
21 June 1975 (age 48) Brooks, Alberta (
1975-06-21
)

Spouse
  
Geordie Mackay (m. ?–2008), Matteo Ortolina

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Sherraine Schalm, formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay (born June 21, 1975), is a former top-ranked Canadian Olympic épée fencer. She is a World Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa. At the 2005 World Fencing Championships she won a bronze medal in the individual épée event, becoming the first Canadian to ever win a World Championships medal in the sport. The next season, in 2005–06, she won the overall World Cup title.

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Born in Brooks, Alberta, Schalm has earned the best ever results for any Canadian woman fencer at the world championships, the Olympic Games and is a four-time medallist at the Pan American Games. She has competed at four Summer Olympics. In 2000 she finished 19th in the individual event. In 2004 she finished 18th in the individual event, and fourth in the team event.

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Schalm published a memoir, Running With Swords (under the name Sherraine MacKay), in 2005.

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In the 2008 Olympic Games, Schalm was widely expected to challenge for a medal, but lost in the second round. She was seeded 9th.

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At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the last 32 but lost to Shin A-lam.

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She retired in 2013.

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Books

  • Sherraine MacKay (2005). Running with Swords: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Irrepressible Canadian Fencing Champion. Don Mills, Ont: Fitzhenry and Whiteside. ISBN 1-55041-982-X. 
  • Sherraine has also won two individual world championship medals at the senior level. The four-time Olympian from Brooks, Alta., captured Canada’s first world championship fencing medal – a bronze in individual épée in 2005. She topped that in 2009, claiming a silver.

    References

    Sherraine Schalm Wikipedia