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OUR COACHES

Victor Gantsevich

VICTOR GANTSEVICH

Founder and Head Coach

Canadian National Team Coach 

Former Coach of Team Israel and Ukraine

Igor Gantsevich Dynamo Fencing Coach

IGOR GANTSEVICH

Canadian Fencing Federation -
High Performance Director
2004 - 2012 Canadian National Team
2022 Vancouver World Cup Chairman

Eric Boisse Dynamo Fencing Coach

ERIC BOISSE

1996 - 2011 Team France

2004 Olympic Champion

Charles Sthilaire Dynamo Fencing Coach

CHARLES ST-HILAIRE

1992 2007 Canadian National Team

Vitaliy

VITALIY BUDOVSKYI

Ukrainian National Team

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MYKHAILO TYSHKO

 Olympian and World Champion

Simon Dynamo Fencing Coach

SIMON STAVISSKY

Team Canada Project Coach

Erik Dynamo Fencing Coach

ERIK MEDINA DIAZ

2001 - 2010 Cuban National Team

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SATISH GARNAIK

2010 - 2020 Indian National Team

Lynn Dynamo Fencing Coach
Iliya Dynamo Fencing Coach
Evrim Dynamo Fencing Coach

LYNN SEGUIN

2020 Tokyo Paralympics Wheelchair Fencing Team Manager 

ILIYA DEGTYAREV

2014 - 2016 Russian National Team

EVRIM SELCUK

Former Turkish National Men's Epee Cadet Team

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ALINA ZELENTSOVA

2016 - 2019 Ukrainian National Team

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SERGEI BOBROV

2020 - 2023 Head Coach U23 Epee Men's National Team of Estonia 

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ILIAN BOBROV

Estonian National Team 

OUR TRAINERS

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SERGEY NAZAROV

Trainer

CORINE LATREILLE

Trainer

Dr. SAUL L. MILLER

Sport Psychologist

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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Charles
Alina
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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.

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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."

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Simon
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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 - Bronze meda

Nadia Hayes - 5th at the 2023 Cadet World Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and 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

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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."

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ILIYA
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.

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Lynn
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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)

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EVRIM SELCUK

TOP ACHIEVEMENTS

Former Turkish National Mens Epee Cadet Team.

 

Evrim has joined our club as a former member to now share his passion as a coach.

Evrim loves fencing and will continue to show his love for our sport to our youth for many generations to come.

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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

Mykhailo
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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)

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SERGEI BOBROV

COACHING

Since 2011, Sergei Bobrov's students have annually become champions and medalist of Estonian epee championships in various age divisions among children and youth. 

Since 2013, Sergei's students have been permanent members of the Estonian epee national cadet team.

 

Since 2016, his students have been part of the Estonian epee national junior team, and since 2020 they have been part of the Estonian epee seniors men's national team. 

In 2020 and 2022, the student and son of Sergei Bobrov won the title of Estonian epee seniors champion, and the men's team of Sergei Bobrov's sports school won the Estonian senior epee championship in 2018 and 2023. 

In May 2023, Sergei, together with his son Ilian, won the bronze medal of the U23 European Championship.

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