A manga for “sport enthusiasts”: when fencer Enzo Lefort writes his story before Paris 2024

Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin, with Cédric Chasseur 7:33 p.m., March 06, 2023

Twice world champion, once Olympic champion, foil fencer Enzo Lefort has set himself a new challenge.

Guest of the

program , the athlete of the France team spoke, at the microphone of Cédric Chasseur, of his other passion, manga.

This is how he decided to publish an animated book retracing his story and his career as a professional sportsman.

Published by Blacklephant editions, the manga, entitled

, is released in bookstores this Tuesday.

And Enzo Lefort let his impatience show: "I can't wait to see the feedback from readers. Because it's true that this book, we imagined it for the young, the youngest, the not so young, but also sports enthusiasts and not sports enthusiasts", enthused the 2021 Olympic champion in team foil.

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"Values ​​to share"

In 

, the French foil fencer reveals himself in an intimate way and stages his entourage, then little known to the general public.

The native of Cayenne evokes his "companion, (his) daughter, (his) sister and all the friends he met" in his everyday life.

"My opponents will find it interesting because we find all the people I have been able to meet during my career and who have made me the fencer and the man that I am", projected Enzo Lefort.

This manga, the foil fencer built it from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. "It is the greatest, the highest level of competition to which a fencer can gradually access", he justified.

A story around this event that helps to better understand how the athlete got there.

From these Olympics, Enzo Lefort uses "flashback where we see (him) making his fencing debut in Guadeloupe".

A counter-current construction to the chronological construction to put into perspective the work accomplished to reach the high level.

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Focused on Paris 2024

Nevertheless, this passion for manga in no way diminishes the passion and involvement of Enzo Lefort in his sport.

The Frenchman remains focused on his next goal, the Summer Olympics in 2024. "I know that before arriving at Paris 2024, there are going to be intermediate stages. There are World Cups, championships "Europe, world championships which are all qualifiers for the Olympic Games. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to set some in the short and medium term" he explained in 

.

Various competitions therefore await the foil fencer.

And sports fans can follow them.

After the release of this first volume, Enzo Lefort announces that there will be "three more in 2023, one in 2024 before the Games and one after the Olympics".

The foil fencer hopes to be able to share his future successes with his readers.

For the next volumes, the “pages are blank. It will therefore be up to me to write them”, concluded the gold medalist of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.