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Piers Gilliver

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Piers Gilliver, born Piers Alexander Gilliver on 17 September 1994 in Gloucester, is a British wheelchair fencer who competes in both épée and sabre. He is the 2020 Paralympic champion in the individual épée, A classification, and the first British Paralympic champion in the sport since Carol Walton in 1988. He has won medals at world and European championship level, and in 2016 he represented Great Britain at the Rio Paralympics and won a silver medal. In Tokyo he won gold in the épée A, silver in the team foil and bronze in the team épée, alongside Dimitri Coutya, Gemma Collis-McCann and Oliver Lam-Watson.

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1994 1
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Male 1
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1 1
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1 1
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Para or Adaptive 1
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Piers Alexander Gilliver (born 17 September 1994) is a British wheelchair fencer, who competes in both épée and sabre.
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    He is the 2020 Paralympic champion in the Individual Épée, A classification.
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    Piers Alexander Gilliver (born 17 September 1994) is a British wheelchair fencer, who competes in both épée and sabre.
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