Sherraine Schalm

Sherraine Schalm
Sherraine Schalm at the 2009 World Fencing Championships podium
Personal information
Born	(1975-06-21) 21 June 1975 Brooks, Alberta
Nationality	Canadian
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	épée
Hand	right-handed
FIE ranking	rankings
Medal record Women's épée Representing Canada World Championships 2009 Antalya Individual épée 2005 Leipzig Individual épée Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo Individual épée 2011 Guadalajara Team épée 2003 Santo Domingo Team épée

Sherraine Schalm, formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay (born June 21, 1975), is a former top-ranked Canadian Olympic épée fencer. She is a World Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa. At the 2005 World Fencing Championships she won a bronze medal in the individual épée event, becoming the first Canadian to ever win a World Championships medal in the sport. The next season, in 2005–06, she won the overall World Cup title.

Born in Brooks, Alberta, Schalm has earned the best ever results for any Canadian woman fencer at the world championships, the Olympic Games and is a four-time medallist at the Pan American Games. She has competed at four Summer Olympics. In 2000 she finished 19th in the individual event. In 2004 she finished 18th in the individual event, and fourth in the team event.

Schalm published a memoir, Running With Swords (under the name Sherraine MacKay), in 2005.

In the 2008 Olympic Games, Schalm was widely expected to challenge for a medal, but lost in the second round. She was seeded 9th.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the last 32 but lost to Shin A-lam.

She retired in 2013.

Books

• Sherraine MacKay (2005). Running with Swords: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Irrepressible Canadian Fencing Champion. Don Mills, Ont: Fitzhenry and Whiteside. ISBN 1-55041-982-X.

Sherraine has also won two individual world championship medals at the senior level. The four-time Olympian from Brooks, Alta., captured Canada's first world championship fencing medal – a bronze in individual épée in 2005. She topped that in 2009, claiming a silver.