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Recruiting Rankings

Strength Ranking

Men's SabreBirth Year 2008

Track the strongest fencers in this class year and compare direct elimination or pool-only strength with a built-in 180-day trend.

Strength leaderboard

Conservative estimates help stabilize the ranking while the trend column shows short-term movement. Search by fencer name and click a numeric heading to sort instantly.

Rank Name Rating
1 Gonzalez, Emilio 3087 2807 20 A26
2 Holz, Daniel 2984 2709 25 A25
3 Primus, Nazir 2932 2659 74 A26
4 Guffey, Christopher 2761 2505 65 A26
5 Su, Landon 2722 2447 36 A26
6 Kwalwasser, Eric 2687 2428 37 A26
7 Pi, Alexander 2604 2347 79 A25
8 Tao, Jeffrey 2600 2346 9 A24
9 Hu, Christopher 2593 2338 13 A24
10 Lee, Noah 2560 2301 17 A26
11 Ramanan, Jaisimh 2524 2272 3 B26
12 Smith, Finnley 3663 2268 214 E26
13 Yan, William 2502 2239 51 A25
14 Bera, Enzo 2501 2238 3 A25
15 Ye, Eric 2490 2235 33 A25
16 Kalpathy, Rohit 2478 2227 - B25
17 Kushkov, Daniel 2475 2213 87 B25
18 Jang, Hwanyun 2935 2184 - C25
19 Zhao, Zhiyu 2417 2163 30 A25
20 Li, Yiwei 2404 2153 8 A24
21 Zhu, Yuchen 2360 2110 - C25
22 Gong, Jerry 2341 2090 6 A24
23 Chen, Samuel 2332 2084 19 B25
24 Laub, William 2319 2067 39 A25
25 Ramanan, Govind 2308 2058 17 A23
26 Siddiqui, Shayan 2281 2024 15 B25
27 Contractor, Cyrus 2272 2017 1 B25
28 Hublall, Ethan 2268 2015 44 C26
29 Yerramilli, Tejas 2280 2013 24 B25
30 Katz, Ryan 2251 2002 13 B25

* The ranking is determined by the conservative estimate of the strength, which reduces uncertainty about the ratings to about 1%. Only athletes with estimates over 2000 and whose ratings are reasonably certain are included on this list.