Daryl Homer

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Daryl D. Homer (born July 16, 1990) is an American sabre fencer who has competed in three Olympic Games and won a silver medal in 2016.

Homer was born on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and moved with his family to the Bronx, New York, when he was five. He grew up in New York City, went to Public School 21 and Salesian High School, and earned a degree in advertising communications from St. John’s University. He now works in advertising and marketing at Anomaly and is active in Fencing in the Schools, a program that brings fencing to inner-city students.

He began fencing at age 11 after seeing a masked fencer in a dictionary, joined the Peter Westbrook Foundation, and trained under coach Yury Gelman. He quickly rose through the ranks, earning bronze at the Cadet World Championships in 2007 and bronze at the Junior World Championships in 2009. He won NCAA fencing titles as a competing college athlete and began to make a mark on the international stage.

Homer competed in the 2012 London Olympics, finishing sixth in individual sabre and eighth in the team event. He continued to achieve success on the world scene, becoming a ten-time Pan American team champion and three-time individual Pan American champion. In 2016, he won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first U.S. sabre medalist since 1984 and the first U.S. silver in men’s sabre since 1904. After the 2016 Games, he changed coaches. He qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, making him a three-time Olympian.