Paul ApSimon

Paul ApSimon is a Canadian fencer who was the Canadian Fencing Team Leader for the 2000 Olympic Games, and he coached men's and women's foil and the modern pentathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. ApSimon has also represented Canada at World and Commonwealth Championships and has numerous National and Provincial Championships to his credit. He is a graduate of the national coaches institute and is currently both Coach at the Excalibur Fencing Club and Head Coach at the RA Fencing Club in Ottawa. As varsity fencing coach at the University of Ottawa, ApSimon coached the men's and women's teams to six consecutive provincial titles. In 1997 he was named Team Leader for the Canadian University Fencing Team at the FISU Games in Sicily. ApSimon coached the women's foil team to a historic gold medal at the 2015 Pan Am Games, a first for any Canadian women in fencing.
He is currently the Modern Pentathlon and Women's Foil coach of the Canadian 2016 Olympic team, as well as working as a gym teacher at Henry Munro Middle School, in Ottawa, Ontario.