Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (6 February 1876 – 23 August 1939) was a French fencer. He was the first modern Olympic champion in foil and first French gold medalist, winning the event at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He was born in Paris.
eugène, henri, gravelotte, february, 1876, august, 1939, french, fencer, first, modern, olympic, champion, foil, first, french, gold, medalist, winning, event, 1896, summer, olympics, athens, born, paris, olympic, medal, recordmen, fencingrepresenting, france1. Eugene Henri Gravelotte 6 February 1876 23 August 1939 was a French fencer He was the first modern Olympic champion in foil and first French gold medalist winning the event at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens 1 He was born in Paris Olympic medal recordMen s fencingRepresenting France1896 Athens FoilGravelotte was undefeated in his group for the preliminary round defeating Greek fencers Athanasios Vouros Konstantinos Komninos Miliotis and Georgios Balakakis in succession He then faced fellow Frenchman Henri Callot who had gone undefeated in the other group in the final Gravelotte won that match 3 2 2 Gravelotte died in Benodet on 23 August 1939 aged 63 References Edit Eugene Henry Gravelotte Olympic Results sports reference com Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 18 September 2011 Eugene Henri Gravelotte Olympedia Retrieved 21 December 2020 External links EditEugene Henri Gravelotte at Olympedia This article about a fencing Olympic medalist of France is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eugene Henri Gravelotte amp oldid 1123380024, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
