Jean-Paul Banos
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| Full name | Jean-Paul Banos | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 1961 Lavelanet, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Scaramouche Fencing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jean-Paul Banos (born 27 January 1961) is a Canadian former fencer, who lives in Montreal, Canada. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at four consecutive Olympic Games between 1984 and 1996. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, he defeated Russian future Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov of the gold-medal-winning Unified Team.
His brother, Jean-Marie Banos, also fenced for Canada at four Olympic Games.
Banos now coaches at HuaHua Fencing Club in Markham, Canada.