OUR COACHES
VICTOR GANTSEVICH
Founder and Head Coach
Canadian National Team Coach
Former Coach of Team Israel and Ukraine
IGOR GANTSEVICH
Canadian Fencing Federation -
High Performance Director
2004 - 2012 Canadian National Team
2022 Vancouver World Cup Chairman
ERIC BOISSE
1996 - 2011 Team France
2004 Olympic Champion
CHARLES ST-HILAIRE
1992 2007 Canadian National Team
SIMON STAVISSKY
Team Canada Project Coach
VITALIY BUDOVSKYI
Ukrainian National Team
ERIK MEDINA DIAZ
2001 - 2010 Cuban National Team
MYKHAILO TYSHKO
Olympian and World Champion
LUIS PATTERSON
2013 - 2020 Cuban National Team
LYNN SEGUIN
2020 Tokyo Paralympics Wheelchair Fencing Team Manager
ALINA ZELENTSOVA
2016 - 2019 Ukrainian National Team
ILIYA DEGTYAREV
2014 - 2016 Russian National Team
SATISH GARNAIK
2010 - 2020 Indian National Team
EVRIM SELCUK
Former Turkish National Men's Epee Cadet Team
NATALIE HO KING
2005 - 2011 Hong Kong National Team
OUR TRAINERS
SERGEY NAZAROV
Trainer
CORINE LATREILLE
Trainer
Dr. SAUL L. MILLER
Sport Psychologist
MAITRE VICTOR GANTSEVICH
Since graduating from the Institute of Physical Education and Sports of the City of Kiev, Ukraine in 1979, he has led Fencers to championships in the Ukraine, Israel and Canada.
He currently dedicates the majority of his time and energy to elite High Performance Dynamo athletes. This dovetails nicely with his roles as the B.C. Provincial and Senior Canadian National Team Head Coach. Over the past decade, Maitre Gantsevich has quickly become a beacon for elite level coaching, having qualified nearly thirty (30) Dynamo athletes to Canada’s National Teams.
IGOR GANTSEVICH
In his nearly decade long career as an elite athlete and Canadian National Team member from 2004 to 2012, Igor enjoyed success at the highest levels including a Bronze Medal at the 2011 PanAM Games and championships at Provincial, National, North American and PanAmerican Championships. The culmination of his dedication and hard work came in 2008 when he played a critical role in securing Canada a Medal at a World Cup event (International Grand Prix), the first of its kind in Canadian history.
Igor is currently the president of Dynamo Fencing Club and the Head Coach of the West Vancouver Premier Fencing Academy. Over the past ten (10) years, Igor has introduced over 50,000 Youth to the sport of fencing across the lower mainland of British Columbia.
ERIC BOISSE
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
2004 Olympic Gold Medalist in Athens;
2000, 2005, 2006, 2007 - 4 times World Champion
#1 World Ranking in Senior Men’s Epee in 2007
Winner of 4 FIE Grand Prix in individual and 12 by team
COACHING
"I believe Fencing is a Chess sport and a Champion must be able to overcome any situation with the mind first that is why my coaching is half mental half physical. "if you use your brain, everybody can beat anybody".
CHARLES ST-HILAIRE
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
3 Selections as athlete to Fisu games
Top 8 result in Palma (ESP) 1999
13 times National Champion
9 Selections for Worlds
Many top 16 results in senior world cups
11 NAC medals (3 Gold)
4 times Québec Federation athlete of the year
COACHING
Charles has significant results as a coach whose students won many medals: 42 medals at Nationals (16 Gold); 6 individual Pan-Am (1 Gold); 4 Senior World Cup medals; 1 Bronze medal at Cadet World championship.
ALINA ZELENTSOVA
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Top 16 Europe Championship Serbia - 2016
Ukrainian Championship - 2016 (team)
Bronze medal Ukrainian Championship - 2016
Bronze medal Ukrainian Championship - 2017
Silver medal Ukrainian Championship - 2018
5 place Ukrainian Championship - 2019
COACHING
Manager - Kharkiv Ukraine Fencing Federation
Coach Epee & Foil - trained children 6-9 and 10-15 y.o. who achieved high results in Ukrainian tournaments.
Ukrainian Referee (Epee) cadets world tournaments Austria 2019, Bratislava 2019, Budapest 2021, Serbia 2021.
A chief referee at the international tournament in memory of Leonid Averbakh in Kharkiv, as well as many other tournaments in Ukraine.
VITALIY BUDOVSKYI
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
3 times Junior World Champion
( 1997 and 2 times 1998 ), 1999 and 2006
European silver medalist, 2001 European bronze medalist in Modern Pentathlon
1998 Champion of Youth Ukrainian Games
1999 and 2003 Champion of Ukrainian Games in Modern Pentathlon
COACHING
Bronze medal in World Championship 2011
Silver in cadet World championship 2011
"Learn from mistakes for future victories."
SIMON STAVISSKY
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Team Canada Project Coach
Cadet and Junior National Team coach at 2022 World Championship in Dubai
COACHING
Bratislava,Cadet Circuit, 2023 team event - Bronze medal
Nadia Hayes - Gold medal at Junior NAC 2022
Bowen Xu - Bronze medal at Y14 NAC 2022
Adrian Wong - Top 8 at the Y14 NAC 2022
Adam Wong -National Championship 2021: Senior gold medalist
Hayes Nadia - Canada Cup 2022: Cadet gold medalist
Lucas Sings - Gold medal at Commonwealth
Championship
Numerous medals at Canadian National Championships
ERIK MEDINA DIAZ
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Top 32 World Cup - Havana 2004
Top32 and 6 place team FISU GAMES
2001 to 2010 Cuban National Team Men’s Epee
2018 Canadian National Champion Team
2017 Canadian Senior Men’s Epee National Bronze Medalist
2016 to 2019 – Epee Coach at Estoc Fencing Club (Quebec City, Canada)
2010 to 2016 – Epee Coach in Provincial Cuban Team
2005 FISU Games Athlete
COACHING
Erik plans to continue hard as a coach with his students to guarantee generational replacement.
"My dream is to get an athlete to the Olympic games."
LUIS PATTERSON
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
2019 Gold Medal (Team) - Pan American
Championship, Toronto, Canada
2019 Gold Medal (Team) - Pan American Games,
Lima Peru
2012-2019 Cuba National Team Member
2016 Bronze Medal Junior - Pan American
Championship, Mexico
2016 Silver Medal (Team) - Central American
Championship, Panama
2016 Silver Medal - Central American
Championship, Panama
2015 Gold Medal - Junior World Cup, El Salvador
COACHING
2010-2013 Assistant Coach ESFAAR
ILIYA DEGTYAREV
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Ilya has built an impressive career as a fencer over the last decade.
Being on Russian National Team (2014-2016), Top 16 (individual), 3rd place (team) at European Championship Jerusalem (Israel, 2014) as well as obtaining 1st place (individual), 1st place (team) at European Championship U-23 Tbilisi (Georgia, 2014) allowed him to become a great mentor and a successful coach.
LYNN SEGIUN
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Coach Lynn was appointed by Canadian Fencing Federation as Epee Weapon Leader. She has over
30 years of experience and is renowned in Canada
and worldwide for her achievements:
2020 Tokyo Paralympics – Wheelchair Fencing, Team Manager
2005 Maître D’Armes – Fencing, in all three weapons
1983 Women’s World Champion – Modern Pentathlon
1983 – Canadian Female Athlete of the Year (Velma Springstead Trophy)
MYKHAILO TYSHKO
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
1985, 1991 Bronze medalist of the World Championship
1988 Bronze medalist of the XXIV Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea
1986 Silver medalist of the world Championship
1987 World Champion
1985 Winner of the Summer Universiade
Five-times holder European Cup
Winner and finalist of World Cups
SATISH GARNAIK
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
Asian games 2018 Jakarta ,Indonesia
South Asian championship 2011 and 2012 medalist (Individual Gold and Bronze;
Team 2x Gold)
Senior national championship individual and team (4xGold, 5xSilver, 10xBronze)
Pankaj Kumar Sharma - Satellite World Cup Finland Top 32, 2020 Senior National Fencing Championship 2020 Bronze (individual) and Gold (Team)
Rajan Prashar - 2021 Senior National Championship Top 16, 2020 India Inter University Gold (Team), 2018 India Inter University Gold (Team)
