The Harvard Olympian

Sophomore Eli Dershwitz represented the United States at this summer’s Olympic Games in the men’s saber fencing competition in Rio de Janeiro. While he didn’t come home with a medal, Dershwitz said the intense training and discipline required to make it to Brazil gave him the confidence to succeed back at Harvard and the drive to “reach certain academic levels.”
“Being able to make split second decision off of tiny pieces of information in a sport, that also helps in real life,” said Dershwitz who took a year off from Harvard to train. He will fence again for the Crimson this season and hopes to compete in the next Olympics in 2020 in Tokyo.