Olympics Bound: Di Tella Earns a Spot on Team Argentina

DURHAM - Former Duke fencing standout Pascual Di Tella punched his ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as he qualified for Team Argentina in men's saber.

A native of Vincente Lopez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Di Tella is one of the most decorated Blue Devils in recent fencing history. Di Tella rounded out his stellar campaign as a Blue Devil with a 10th-place finish in men's saber at his fourth NCAA Championship appearance in 2018, collecting his second All-America accolade in a Duke lamé. He became just the fifth Blue Devil to capture All-America honors as a saberist and only the second to receive the honor more than once.

Di Tella helped the Duke men's fencing team make history as with the program's first ACC team title at the 2018 ACC Championship.

Throughout his career, Di Tella was a three-time ACC Fencer of the Year, the 2017 ACC Saber Champion, the 2017 ACC Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year and qualified for NCAAs and NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional four times. Di Tella won 78.0 percent of his career bouts (163-46) and notched a silver and bronze medal at the ACC Championship, in addition to gold.

The Paris Olympics run from July 29 - Aug. 11.

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Olympics Bound: Di Tella Earns a Spot on Team Argentina

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