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Eleanor Harvey will compete for Canada’s first-ever Olympic fencing medal after advancing to the semifinals in the women’s foil individual event at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Harvey narrowly defeated Italian Martina Favaretto 15-14 in Sunday’s quarterfinals.
Earlier, she beat Poland’s Julia Walczyk-Klimaszyk 14-6 in the Round of 16 and China’s Wang Yuting 12-8 in the opening round.
Harvey will next face Lauren Scruggs of the United States.
The 29-year-old Harvey, from Hamilton, Ont., made her Olympic debut in 2016.
She was a silver medallist in both the individual and team foil events in her third Pan Am Games last year in Santiago, Chile.
In other Round of 16 results, Toronto’s Jessica Guo was defeated 15-11 by Scruggs and Yunjia Zhang, also from Toronto, fell 15-5 to Hungary’s Flora Pasztor.
Also on Sunday, Nicholas Zhang of Richmond, B.C., lost 15-11 to Venezuela’s Grabiel Lugo in the opening round of the men’s epee.