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April 12, 2024

Fencers and coaches of the Olympic era edit

Austria
 
Siegfried Flesch
  • Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), sabreur, Olympic silver
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch, sabreur and Olympic bronze medalist
  • Otto Herschmann, sabreur; one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports; won silver medal in sabre team competition in 1912
  • Ellen Preis, fencer (foil), Olympic champion, 3× world champion, 17× Austrian champion
Belarus
  • Alexandr Romankov, foil fencer
  • Viktor Sidjak, Olympic (1972) and World (1969) Champion, winner of the 1972 and 1973 World Cup, also member of the winning team at 1968, 1976, and 1980 Olympics and at 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1979 World Team Championships; pupil of David Tyshler
Belgium
 
Paul Anspach
Brazil
  • Renzo Agresta, Brazilian fencer in individual sabre events at 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics
  • Roberto Lazzarini, Brazilian fencer at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics
  • Élora Pattaro, Brazilian fencer in women's individual sabre event at 2004 Olympics
  • Fernando Scavasin, Brazilian fencer in the foil events at the 2016 Olympics
Bulgaria
China
Denmark
Estonia
 
Irina Embrich
  • Julia Beljajeva, épéeist, World Champion in Individual Women's Épée (2013). European Champion in Team Women's Épée (2013).
  • Svetlana Chirkova-Lozovaja, most-successful Estonian fencer of the Soviet era. Olympic gold medal for Women's Foil team event at 1968 Summer Olympics, World champion in Women's Foil team event at 1971, silver 1969, individual World Championships bronze medal 1969.
  • Irina Embrich, épéeist, silver (2002) at World Championships women's team event, bronze (2003) at European Championships women's team event, silver (2006) at World Championships women's individual event, bronze (2007) at World Championships and European Championships women's individual event. European Champion in Team Women's Épée (2013).
  • Sven Järve, épéeist, bronze in Individual Men's Épée (2006).
  • Kaido Kaaberma, épéeist, bronze (1990) and gold (1991) at World Championships team event (as a part of the Soviet team). Individual World Championships bronze (1999). Team World Championships silver (2001).
  • Nikolai Novosjolov, épéeist, 2x World Champion in Individual Men's Épée (2010, 2013). Team World Championships silver (2001). European Championships silver (2012).
Finland
France
 
Yves Dreyfus
  • Romain Cannone, fencer (epee), Olympic champion
  • Marc Cerboni, fencer (foil), won bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics .
  • Yves Dreyfus, fencer (épée), national champion and 2x Olympic bronze medalist
  • Lucien Gaudin, twice World Champion (1905 and 1918), won four gold and three silver Olympic medals covering all three weapons
  • Laura Flessel-Colovic, épéeist with two gold, a silver and two bronze medals
  • Alexandre Lippmann, fencer (épée), Olympic champion, 2× silver, bronze
  • Armand Mouyal, fencer (épée), Olympic bronze, world champion, national champion
  • Claude Netter, fencer (foil), Olympic champion, silver
  • Christian d'Oriola, Olympic and world campion, named "Fencer of the 20th Century" by the FIE, International Fencing Federation, in 2001. Between 1947 and 1956 won four World Championships and six Olympic Medals, including two individual gold (foil), one individual silver (foil), two team gold (foil), and one team silver (foil). In addition to 4x Individual World Champion, 4x team world champion.
  • Jean Stern, fencer (épée), Olympic champion
Georgia
  • Sandro Bazadze, sabre, world championship bronze, 2x European champion
Germany
 
Helene Mayer
  • Helene Mayer, German-Jewish foilist, won gold at 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1929 World Championship, left for US in 1931, returned to represent Germany in 1936 Summer Olympics and won silver, went back to US and was granted US citizenship, returned to Germany in 1952 and died of cancer in 1953, won the US Championships eight times.
Great Britain
 
Allan Jay
 
Richard Kruse
  • Connie Adam, fencer, took up fencing aged 60 and went on to win 140 medals.
  • Bob Anderson, sabre fencer, represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships. Went on to a career as sword master and fight director for movies, including the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Star Wars trilogy, and The Princess Bride. Coached Britain's national fencing team for 20 years.
  • Robert Bruniges, World Junior Foil Champion 1976, 3x Olympian
  • Richard Cohen, 5x British sabre champion, author of By the Sword, on the history of fencing
  • Mary Glen Haig, 4x Olympian; IOC member
  • Bill Hoskyns, 1958 World Épée Champion, 1960 Olympic Team silver medalist and 1964 Individual silver medalist. Fenced in the Olympics a record six times (1956–1976), twice at all three weapons. Eight times British champion, won four Commonwealth gold medals and one silver at different weapons.
  • Allan Jay, Épée and foil fencer; Olympic 2× silver, world champion, 4x national champion
  • Ralph Johnson, Epeeist, 4x Olympian, Commonwealth Games Épée Team Champion 1970, 6x British Épée champion,. Also British Under-20 Foil Champion 1967 and British Junior Foil Champion 1971
  • Richard Kruse, Foil, reached quarter-finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, won silver in Men's Foil at 2006 European Championships. First British fencer to achieve the world's top ranking.
  • Fiona McIntosh, 4x British foil champion, winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Fencing Championships and 12 Commonwealth medals, 4x Olympian and finalist in Barcelona 1992
  • Barry Paul, Foil, 3x Olympian, 5x British national champion, Managing Director of the only manufacturer of fencing equipment in the UK
  • Raymond Paul, 2x Commonwealth Games gold medalist
  • René Paul, competed at four Olympics and won 10 Commonwealth Games medals
  • Edgar Seligman, won British championship twice in each weapon, twice won Olympic silver (épée)
  • James Williams – Sabreur, reached L16 at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Hungary
 
Endre Kabos
 
Attila Petschauer
 
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Israel
  • Boaz Ellis, 5x Jewish Israeli national foil champion, and 3x NCAA champion
  • Yuval Freilich (born 1995), European epee champion
  • Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann, Israeli fencer (foil), 16x Israeli national champion – Guinness Record, took part at three Olympic Games – Los Angeles 1984, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996.
  • Noam Mills, Israel (épée), female junior world champion
  • Ayelet Ohayon, Israeli fencer (foil), European champion
  • Andre Spitzer (1945–September 6, 1972), Jewish Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. One of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre.
Italy
 
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Korea (Republic of Korea)
 
Kim Ji-yeon
Philippines
Poland
 
Jerzy Pawłowski
Romania
 
Mihai Covaliu
  • Ana Maria Brânză, team world champion in 2010, 4x European team champion
  • Mihai Covaliu, Olympic champion, coach of Romanian fencing team
  • Rareș Dumitrescu, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European champion with the team in 2006.
  • Tiberiu Dolniceanu, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European champion with the team in 2006.
  • Simona Gherman, world team champion in 2010, 4x European team champion
  • Anca Măroiu, world champion in 2010 with the team, 4x European team champion
  • Florin Zalomir, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European team champion in 2006.
Russia/Soviet Union
 
Grigory Kriss
 
Vladimir Smirnov
  • Sergey Bida (born 1993), Olympic silver, ranked #1 in the world
  • Yelena Grishina (born 1968), Olympic fencer, 2x world team silver
  • Pavel Kolobkov, épéeist, Olympic Champion 2000, 5x world champion (1991, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2005), twice Junior World Champion (1987, 1988), winner of 1999 World Cup
  • Grigory Kriss, Soviet fencer (épée), Olympic champion, 2x silver
  • Viktor Krovopouskov, sabreur, 4x Olympic gold medalist (1976 and 1980 individual, and team), twice individual World Champion (1978, 1982), twice won the World Cup (1976, 1979)
  • Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), sabreur, 2x junior world champion
  • Maria Mazina, Jewish Russian fencer (épée), Olympic champion, bronze
  • Mark Midler, foilist, Jewish Russian member of first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers, took gold at 1956 and 1960 Olympics as a part of Soviet team, won four consecutive World Championships (1959–1962).
  • Vladimir Nazlymov, sabreur/coach, won individual World Championship in 1975 and 1979 and the World Cup in 1975 and 1977, took team gold at 1968, 1976, and 1980 Olympics, and at 1967, 1969–1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979 World Championships, twice named the world's best sabre fencer by the FIE, currently head fencing coach of the Ohio State University fencing team.
  • Boris Onishchenko, modern pentathlete, individual silver medalist and team gold medalist in 1972, disqualified in 1976 for using a rigged weapon
  • Stanislav Pozdnyakov, sabreur, Olympic and 5x world champion, 7x winner of World Cup, 4x member of winning Olympic sabre team, and 4x at world championships
  • Mark Rakita, Jewish Russian sabreur, 2x Olympic Champion (1964, 1968), 2x silver, World Champion in 1967, David Tyshler's pupil and coach in his own right (pupils include Viktor Sidjak)
  • Alexander Romankov, Russian foilist, 10x world champion
  • Yakov Rylsky, Jewish Russian sabreur, 2x Olympic (1964, 1968) and 3x World (1958, 1961, 1963) Champion, represented USSR over a period of 14 years (1953–1966)
  • Sergey Sharikov, Jewish Russian sabreur, 2x Olympic Champion (1996, 2000)
  • Viktor Sidjak, Soviet sabreur, 4x Olympic gold medalist
  • Vladimir Smirnov, foilist, won individual gold at 1980 Summer Olympics, won world championships in 1981, died at 1982 World Championships in Rome, when a broken blade went through his mask causing a fatal brain injury (through the left eye orbit—not the eye itself); his death prompted an extensive review of safety standards in fencing. Tragic though his death was, it ultimately resulted in making the sport statistically safer than golf.
  • David Tyshler, Jewish Russian sabreur, member of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers, won medals at 1956 Olympics and five World Championships, best known for his achievements as a coach, one of the founding fathers of the Soviet school of fencing, pupils include Mark Rakita and Viktor Sidjak
  • Eduard Vinokurov, Jewish Russian sabreur, 2x Olympic champion (1968, 1976), silver
  • Iosif Vitebskiy, Jewish Russian épée fencer, 19x national championship medalist.
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
  • Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
  • Sergei Golubitsky, World Foil Champion 1997, 1998, 1999; Winner of 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1999 World Cup, Olympic silver medalist 1992.
  • Vadim Gutzeit, Ukrainian fencer (saber), Olympic champion, world championship silver and bronze
  • Grigory Kriss, épée, Olympic champion, 2× silver
  • David Tyshler, saber fencer, Olympic bronze
  • Iosif Vitebskiy, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10x national champion, world champion
United States
 
Lee Kiefer
 
General George Patton
 
Soren Thompson
 
Mariel Zagunis
  • Maitre Michel Alaux (1924–1974), French-American fencing master and author; 3x U.S. Olympic coach.
  • Norman Armitage (born Norman Cudworth Cohn), 17x national sabre champion
  • Albert Axelrod, Jewish American bronze medalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in foil
  • Abraham Balk, only man to win both foil and epeé NCAA championships (1947)
  • Cliff Bayer, 4x U.S. foil champion
  • Caitlin Bilodeaux, 4x USFA Women's Foil Champ; tied for third on the women's championship list. Pan American Individual and Team champion, 1987, 2x NCAA women's foil champion. 2x U-20 National Champion.[2]
  • Tamir Bloom, 2x U.S. épée champion
  • Muriel Bower, first woman fencing master in the U.S.
  • Daniel Bukantz, Jewish American Olympian, foil fencer, member of Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  • Michael D'Asaro Sr., fencing master and coach
  • Eli Dershwitz, saber, world championship silver medal, US champion, world champion, junior world champion, 4x Pan-American champion, NCAA champion
  • Jed Dupree, 2004 Olympian, 2002 U.S. National champion, 2003 Pan American gold medal, 2001 NCAA Men's Foil champion,
  • Csaba Elthes, legendary coach to 6 U.S. Olympic teams, immigrated from Hungary
  • Race Imboden, 2012 Olympian, 2x U.S. National Men's Foil Champion, 2x Pan Am Champion, Men's Foil World Cup gold medalist
  • Nick Itkin, foil, Olympic bronze medal, world championship bronze medal, 2x NCAA champion, Pan American champion,
  • Emily Jacobson, NCAA sabre champion, junior world champion
  • Sada Jacobson, Jewish American saber silver medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2x bronze medalist; first American female to be ranked # 1 in the world, and the second American ever to be ranked # 1 in the world, 2× world team champion.
  • Dan Kellner, U.S. foil champion
  • Lee Kiefer (born 1994), Olympic women's champion, 4x NCAA champion
  • Ed Korfanty, U.S. National women's sabre team coach. Formerly Polish national coach.
  • Byron Krieger, U.S. 2x Olympian, Pan American Games team gold/silver
  • Allan Kwartler, U.S. foil and sabre fencer, winner of gold medals in Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games
  • Michael Marx 5x Olympian, Épée and Foil Coach, National Champion
  • Helene Mayer, German and U.S. fencer (foil), Olympic champion
  • Gerek Meinhardt, foil fencer
  • Sharon Monplaisir, foil fencer
  • Tim Morehouse,[3][4] won silver medal in men's sabre at 2008 Summer Olympics
  • George S. Patton, 4th out of 27 fencers in 1912 Olympic Games
  • Julia Jones Pugliese, first U.S. women's intercollegiate fencing champion (1929), founded the Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (with Dorothy Hafner and Elizabeth Ross), first woman coach of an international U.S. fencing team, coached NYU women's team 1932–1938, and Hunter team 1956–1992
  • Janice Romary, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 Olympian foil fencer.
  • Jason Rogers, saber team silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Giorgio Santelli, legendary coach to 5 U.S. Olympic teams (1928–1952), Olympic gold medalist (1920 Men's Sabre Team), son of Italo Santelli (known as the "father of modern sabre fencing" and an Olympic silver medal winner), fought duel after his father was insulted by Italian team Captain.
  • Maitre Michel Sebastiani, coached fencing at Princeton University 1982–2006, and before that coached fencing at Brooklyn College, New York University (NYU), and Cornell. Coached his teams to 11 national championships. In 1994 and again in 2006 was named the most outstanding Coach of the Year by U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA). Developed 5 NCAA individual men's champions and 3 NCAA individual women's champions. Was a 1960 French Modern Pentathlon Olympic Team selection.[5]
  • Keeth Smart, first American to be ranked # 1 in the world, member of the silver medal winning U.S. men's sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, member of 2004 gold medal U.S. Men's Sabre team at World Cup
  • Soren Thompson, U.S. (épée), World Team Champion, US Junior Champion, US champion, NCAA champion
  • Jonathan Tiomkin, 2x U.S. foil champion.
  • Rebecca Ward, bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's sabre, 2005 FIE Jr. World Champion at age 15. Bronze medal in sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Gold in Women's Sabre team sy 2005 World Championship. 2006 Cadet World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion Team member.
  • Peter Westbrook, bronze medalist in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 13x U.S. National Men's Sabre Champion, author of Harnessing Anger, founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation, teaching and helping youth through sport.
  • Ruth White, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, was the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the Olympics and is a Pan American Games medalist[6]
  • George Worth (born György Woittitz), U.S. (saber), Olympic bronze, U.S. champion, 3x Pan American champion
  • Mariel Leigh Zagunis, 2x Olympic gold medalist in women's sabre (in the 2008 Summer Olympics and in the first-ever women's sabre event at the 2004 Summer Olympics); first American woman to win gold; first American to win gold since 1904. Member of the bronze medal winning U.S. women's sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Venezuela

  • Rubén Limardo, Men's Individual Épée Olympic Champion 2012, 2013 Budapest World Championship silver medalist.

Fencing masters of the pre-Olympic era edit

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

Famous duelists and fencing enthusiasts edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Ivan Osiier". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. ^ http://usfencinghalloffame.com/roll-of-honor/349-bilodeaux-caitlin 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Elfman, Lois. "Our Olympic Moment: Tim Morehouse Heads To London", Chutzpah, July 25, 2012. Accessed July 26, 2012. ""Much of his sense of determination is inspired by his Jewish heritage. His maternal grandmother and two of her sisters escaped from Germany in the mid-1930s.... "My middle name, Frank, is the last name of my Jewish heritage. My sense of being Jewish comes from my awareness of my grandmother’s courage and determination to live in the face of enormous difficulties." ... He will also continue training because he plans to compete in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2013."
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
  6. ^ Henneman, Kristen (27 February 2017). "Olympian Ruth White Found Freedom in Fencing". USA Fencing. Retrieved 3 September 2019.

External links edit

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Contents 1 Fencers and coaches of the Olympic era 2 Fencing masters of the pre Olympic era 3 Famous duelists and fencing enthusiasts 4 References 5 External linksFencers and coaches of the Olympic era editAustria nbsp Siegfried FleschAlbert Bogen Albert Bogathy sabreur Olympic silver Siegfried Fritz Flesch sabreur and Olympic bronze medalist Otto Herschmann sabreur one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports won silver medal in sabre team competition in 1912 Ellen Preis fencer foil Olympic champion 3 world champion 17 Austrian championBelarusAlexandr Romankov foil fencer Viktor Sidjak Olympic 1972 and World 1969 Champion winner of the 1972 and 1973 World Cup also member of the winning team at 1968 1976 and 1980 Olympics and at 1969 1970 1971 1974 1975 and 1979 World Team Championships pupil of David TyshlerBelgium nbsp Paul AnspachHenri Anspach fencer epee and foil Olympic champion Paul Anspach fencer epee and foil 2x Olympic champion Jacques Ochs fencer epee Olympic champion Gaston Salmon fencer epee Olympic championBrazilRenzo Agresta Brazilian fencer in individual sabre events at 2004 2008 and 2012 Olympics Roberto Lazzarini Brazilian fencer at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics Elora Pattaro Brazilian fencer in women s individual sabre event at 2004 Olympics Fernando Scavasin Brazilian fencer in the foil events at the 2016 OlympicsBulgariaVasil Etropolski born 1959 sabre world champion and Olympic fencerChinaJin Jing wheelchair fencer who became a national celebrity following an incident during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay Wang Lei Olympic Men s Individual Epee silver Medal 2004 Ju Jie Luan fencer and coach gold medalist for Women s Foil at 1984 Summer Olympics Zhong Man 2008 Olympic Men s Individual Sabre Champion Sun Yiwen Olympic women s epee championDenmarkEllen Osiier Denmark foil fencer Olympic champion Dr Ivan Osiier represented Denmark in seven Olympic Games between 1908 and 1948 Won the silver medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics 25 Danish champion 1 Estonia nbsp Irina EmbrichJulia Beljajeva epeeist World Champion in Individual Women s Epee 2013 European Champion in Team Women s Epee 2013 Svetlana Chirkova Lozovaja most successful Estonian fencer of the Soviet era Olympic gold medal for Women s Foil team event at 1968 Summer Olympics World champion in Women s Foil team event at 1971 silver 1969 individual World Championships bronze medal 1969 Irina Embrich epeeist silver 2002 at World Championships women s team event bronze 2003 at European Championships women s team event silver 2006 at World Championships women s individual event bronze 2007 at World Championships and European Championships women s individual event European Champion in Team Women s Epee 2013 Sven Jarve epeeist bronze in Individual Men s Epee 2006 Kaido Kaaberma epeeist bronze 1990 and gold 1991 at World Championships team event as a part of the Soviet team Individual World Championships bronze 1999 Team World Championships silver 2001 Nikolai Novosjolov epeeist 2x World Champion in Individual Men s Epee 2010 2013 Team World Championships silver 2001 European Championships silver 2012 FinlandMarianne Sjoblom competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics Nils Sjoblom competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics France nbsp Yves DreyfusRomain Cannone fencer epee Olympic champion Marc Cerboni fencer foil won bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Yves Dreyfus fencer epee national champion and 2x Olympic bronze medalist Lucien Gaudin twice World Champion 1905 and 1918 won four gold and three silver Olympic medals covering all three weapons Laura Flessel Colovic epeeist with two gold a silver and two bronze medals Alexandre Lippmann fencer epee Olympic champion 2 silver bronze Armand Mouyal fencer epee Olympic bronze world champion national champion Claude Netter fencer foil Olympic champion silver Christian d Oriola Olympic and world campion named Fencer of the 20th Century by the FIE International Fencing Federation in 2001 Between 1947 and 1956 won four World Championships and six Olympic Medals including two individual gold foil one individual silver foil two team gold foil and one team silver foil In addition to 4x Individual World Champion 4x team world champion Jean Stern fencer epee Olympic championGeorgiaSandro Bazadze sabre world championship bronze 2x European championGermany nbsp Helene MayerHelene Mayer German Jewish foilist won gold at 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1929 World Championship left for US in 1931 returned to represent Germany in 1936 Summer Olympics and won silver went back to US and was granted US citizenship returned to Germany in 1952 and died of cancer in 1953 won the US Championships eight times Great Britain nbsp Allan Jay nbsp Richard KruseConnie Adam fencer took up fencing aged 60 and went on to win 140 medals Bob Anderson sabre fencer represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships Went on to a career as sword master and fight director for movies including the Lord of the Rings trilogy the Star Wars trilogy and The Princess Bride Coached Britain s national fencing team for 20 years Robert Bruniges World Junior Foil Champion 1976 3x Olympian Richard Cohen 5x British sabre champion author of By the Sword on the history of fencing Mary Glen Haig 4x Olympian IOC member Bill Hoskyns 1958 World Epee Champion 1960 Olympic Team silver medalist and 1964 Individual silver medalist Fenced in the Olympics a record six times 1956 1976 twice at all three weapons Eight times British champion won four Commonwealth gold medals and one silver at different weapons Allan Jay Epee and foil fencer Olympic 2 silver world champion 4x national champion Ralph Johnson Epeeist 4x Olympian Commonwealth Games Epee Team Champion 1970 6x British Epee champion Also British Under 20 Foil Champion 1967 and British Junior Foil Champion 1971 Richard Kruse Foil reached quarter finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics won silver in Men s Foil at 2006 European Championships First British fencer to achieve the world s top ranking Fiona McIntosh 4x British foil champion winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Fencing Championships and 12 Commonwealth medals 4x Olympian and finalist in Barcelona 1992 Barry Paul Foil 3x Olympian 5x British national champion Managing Director of the only manufacturer of fencing equipment in the UK Raymond Paul 2x Commonwealth Games gold medalist Rene Paul competed at four Olympics and won 10 Commonwealth Games medals Edgar Seligman won British championship twice in each weapon twice won Olympic silver epee James Williams Sabreur reached L16 at the 2000 Summer OlympicsHungary nbsp Endre Kabos nbsp Attila Petschauer nbsp Ildiko Ujlaky RejtoPeter Bakonyi born Buchwald Hungarian sabre fencer 3x Olympic bronze one World Championship gold medal Laszlo Borsody fencing master Ilona Elek Schacherer Hungarian fencer foil 2x Olympic champion Sandor Erdos fencer epee Olympic champion Dezso Foldes fencer sabre 2x Olympic champion Jeno Fuchs fencer sabre 4x Olympic champion Tamas Gabor fencer epee Olympic champion Janos Garay fencer sabre Olympic champion Oskar Gerde fencer sabre 2x Olympic champion Aladar Gerevich sabreur only athlete to win the same Olympic event six times Pal Gerevich sabreur son of Aladar Gerevich Individual Sabre World champion 1977 4x Team Sabre World champion 1973 1978 1981 1982 Hungarian Sportsman of the Year 1977 Sandor Gombos fencer sabre Olympic champion Endre Kabos fencer sabre 3x Olympic champion bronze Rudolf Karpati 6x Olympic and 7x world sabre champion Pal Kovacs fencer sabre 6x Olympic champion Daniel Magay fencer sabre Olympic champion Ferenc Marki fencing master Timea Nagy fencer epee twice Olympic champion Attila Petschauer fencer sabre 2x Olympic champion Gyorgy Piller fencer Olympic champion and coach fencing master Zoltan Ozoray Schenker fencer sabre and foil Olympic champion silver and bronze Bence Szabo fencer sabre 2x Olympic champion Laszlo Szabo master defined a system for developing coaches and wrote Fencing and the Master the only direct student of the legendary Italo Santelli to write of what he learned Teacher of Olympic and World champions Emese Szasz Kovacs fencer epee Olympic champion Istvan Szelei fencer foil 1980 and 1988 Olympic Squads Aron Szilagyi fencer sabre 3x Olympic champion Ildiko Ujlaky Rejto fencer foil 2x Olympic champion Zsolt Vadaszffy Foil Champion and British Professional Epee Champion Senior Coach to British under 20 team for eight years Lajos Werkner fencer sabre 2x Olympic championIsraelBoaz Ellis 5x Jewish Israeli national foil champion and 3x NCAA champion Yuval Freilich born 1995 European epee champion Lydia Hatuel Czuckermann Israeli fencer foil 16x Israeli national champion Guinness Record took part at three Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984 Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Noam Mills Israel epee female junior world champion Ayelet Ohayon Israeli fencer foil European champion Andre Spitzer 1945 September 6 1972 Jewish Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel s 1972 Summer Olympics team One of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre Italy nbsp Edoardo MangiarottiLuigi Barbasetti fencing master and reformerDaniele Garozzo Olympic foil champion Edoardo Mangiarotti won more Olympic titles and World championships than any other fencer in the history of the sport a member of the Mangiarotti fencing clan Aldo Nadi won gold and silver medals at 1920 Olympics during the Mussolini years emigrated to US where he penned the influential On Fencing and his autobiographical notes entitled The Living Sword brother of Nedo Nadi Nedo Nadi won six Olympic gold medals three foil two sabre and one epee brother of Aldo Nadi Giuseppe Radaelli Milanese fencing master Often regarded as the father of modern sabre fencing Giorgio Santelli born in Hungary son of Italo Santelli won gold at 1920 Olympics as part of the Italian sabre team emigrated to US in 1924 coached five U S Olympic teams legendary fencing teacher and popularizer founder of Santelli salle in New York City Italo Santelli fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencing and developed the modern Hungarian style in the 1920s Giulio Gaudini won three Olympic gold four silver and two bronze medals in three Summer Olympic Games 1928 Summer Olympics 1932 Summer Olympics 1936 Summer Olympics Antonella Ragno Lonzi Individual Foil Olympic Champion 1972 Summer Olympics Fabio Dal Zotto Individual Foil Olympic Champion 1976 Summer Olympics Mauro Numa Individual and Team Foil Olympic Champion 1984 Summer Olympics Individual and Team Foil World Champion 1985 Team Foil World Champion 1986 Valentina Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and 15 World Championships gold medals in foil One of only four athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event Korea Republic of Korea nbsp Kim Ji yeonKim Ji yeon Sabre Individual women s Sabre Olympic Champion 2012 London Olympics Kim Jun Ho Sabre 3x team Asian champion 3x team world champion and Team Sabre Olympic Champion 2020 Tokyo Olympics Gu Bon gil Sabre Team Sabre Olympic Champion 2012 London Olympics Nam Hyun Hee Foil Individual Foil silver 2008 Beijing Olympics Team Foil bronze 2012 London Olympics Jeon Hee sook Foil women s Team Foil bronze 2012 London Olympics Choi Byung chul Foil Individual Foil bronze 2012 London Olympics Shin A Lam Epee Team Foil silver 2012 London Olympics Park Sang young individual epee Olympic champion Jung Jin sun Epee Individual Epee bronze 2012 London Olympics PhilippinesDon Francisco Dayrit Sr fencer known as the Father of Philippine Fencing FIE Hall of Fame Poland nbsp Jerzy PawlowskiDanuta Dmowska Polish fencer world and European champion Egon Franke Polish fencer 3x Olympic medalist world champion Ryszard Parulski Polish fencer Olympic silver and bronze medalist Jerzy Pawlowski Polish fencer 5x Olympic medalist 7x world champion Ryszard Sobczak Polish fencer Olympic silver and bronze medalist Aleksandra Socha Polish fencer 2x European champion Witold Woyda Polish fencer double Olympic champion Barbara Wysoczanska Polish fencer Olympic bronze medalist Wojciech Zablocki Polish fencer 4x world championRomania nbsp Mihai CovaliuAna Maria Branză team world champion in 2010 4x European team champion Mihai Covaliu Olympic champion coach of Romanian fencing team Rareș Dumitrescu sabreur won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest world champion with the team in 2009 European champion with the team in 2006 Tiberiu Dolniceanu sabreur won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest world champion with the team in 2009 European champion with the team in 2006 Simona Gherman world team champion in 2010 4x European team champion Anca Măroiu world champion in 2010 with the team 4x European team champion Florin Zalomir sabreur won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest world champion with the team in 2009 European team champion in 2006 Russia Soviet Union nbsp Grigory Kriss nbsp Vladimir SmirnovSergey Bida born 1993 Olympic silver ranked 1 in the world Yelena Grishina born 1968 Olympic fencer 2x world team silver Pavel Kolobkov epeeist Olympic Champion 2000 5x world champion 1991 1993 1994 2002 2005 twice Junior World Champion 1987 1988 winner of 1999 World Cup Grigory Kriss Soviet fencer epee Olympic champion 2x silver Viktor Krovopouskov sabreur 4x Olympic gold medalist 1976 and 1980 individual and team twice individual World Champion 1978 1982 twice won the World Cup 1976 1979 Konstantin Lokhanov born 1998 sabreur 2x junior world champion Maria Mazina Jewish Russian fencer epee Olympic champion bronze Mark Midler foilist Jewish Russian member of first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers took gold at 1956 and 1960 Olympics as a part of Soviet team won four consecutive World Championships 1959 1962 Vladimir Nazlymov sabreur coach won individual World Championship in 1975 and 1979 and the World Cup in 1975 and 1977 took team gold at 1968 1976 and 1980 Olympics and at 1967 1969 1971 1974 1975 1977 1979 World Championships twice named the world s best sabre fencer by the FIE currently head fencing coach of the Ohio State University fencing team Boris Onishchenko modern pentathlete individual silver medalist and team gold medalist in 1972 disqualified in 1976 for using a rigged weapon Stanislav Pozdnyakov sabreur Olympic and 5x world champion 7x winner of World Cup 4x member of winning Olympic sabre team and 4x at world championships Mark Rakita Jewish Russian sabreur 2x Olympic Champion 1964 1968 2x silver World Champion in 1967 David Tyshler s pupil and coach in his own right pupils include Viktor Sidjak Alexander Romankov Russian foilist 10x world champion Yakov Rylsky Jewish Russian sabreur 2x Olympic 1964 1968 and 3x World 1958 1961 1963 Champion represented USSR over a period of 14 years 1953 1966 Sergey Sharikov Jewish Russian sabreur 2x Olympic Champion 1996 2000 Viktor Sidjak Soviet sabreur 4x Olympic gold medalist Vladimir Smirnov foilist won individual gold at 1980 Summer Olympics won world championships in 1981 died at 1982 World Championships in Rome when a broken blade went through his mask causing a fatal brain injury through the left eye orbit not the eye itself his death prompted an extensive review of safety standards in fencing Tragic though his death was it ultimately resulted in making the sport statistically safer than golf David Tyshler Jewish Russian sabreur member of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers won medals at 1956 Olympics and five World Championships best known for his achievements as a coach one of the founding fathers of the Soviet school of fencing pupils include Mark Rakita and Viktor Sidjak Eduard Vinokurov Jewish Russian sabreur 2x Olympic champion 1968 1976 silver Iosif Vitebskiy Jewish Russian epee fencer 19x national championship medalist SwedenJohan Harmenberg Swedish fencer epee Olympic champion 1980 Bjorne Vaggo Swedish fencer epee silver medalist in 1984 OlympicsSwitzerlandMarcel Fischer fencer epee Olympic champion 2004 UkraineYury Gelman born 1955 Ukrainian born American Olympic fencing coach Sergei Golubitsky World Foil Champion 1997 1998 1999 Winner of 1992 1993 1994 and 1999 World Cup Olympic silver medalist 1992 Vadim Gutzeit Ukrainian fencer saber Olympic champion world championship silver and bronze Grigory Kriss epee Olympic champion 2 silver David Tyshler saber fencer Olympic bronze Iosif Vitebskiy epee fencer Olympic silver 10x national champion world championUnited States nbsp Lee Kiefer nbsp General George Patton nbsp Soren Thompson nbsp Mariel ZagunisMaitre Michel Alaux 1924 1974 French American fencing master and author 3x U S Olympic coach Norman Armitage born Norman Cudworth Cohn 17x national sabre champion Albert Axelrod Jewish American bronze medalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in foil Abraham Balk only man to win both foil and epee NCAA championships 1947 Cliff Bayer 4x U S foil champion Caitlin Bilodeaux 4x USFA Women s Foil Champ tied for third on the women s championship list Pan American Individual and Team champion 1987 2x NCAA women s foil champion 2x U 20 National Champion 2 Tamir Bloom 2x U S epee champion Muriel Bower first woman fencing master in the U S Daniel Bukantz Jewish American Olympian foil fencer member of Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Michael D Asaro Sr fencing master and coach Eli Dershwitz saber world championship silver medal US champion world champion junior world champion 4x Pan American champion NCAA champion Jed Dupree 2004 Olympian 2002 U S National champion 2003 Pan American gold medal 2001 NCAA Men s Foil champion Csaba Elthes legendary coach to 6 U S Olympic teams immigrated from Hungary Race Imboden 2012 Olympian 2x U S National Men s Foil Champion 2x Pan Am Champion Men s Foil World Cup gold medalist Nick Itkin foil Olympic bronze medal world championship bronze medal 2x NCAA champion Pan American champion Emily Jacobson NCAA sabre champion junior world champion Sada Jacobson Jewish American saber silver medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2x bronze medalist first American female to be ranked 1 in the world and the second American ever to be ranked 1 in the world 2 world team champion Dan Kellner U S foil champion Lee Kiefer born 1994 Olympic women s champion 4x NCAA champion Ed Korfanty U S National women s sabre team coach Formerly Polish national coach Byron Krieger U S 2x Olympian Pan American Games team gold silver Allan Kwartler U S foil and sabre fencer winner of gold medals in Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games Michael Marx 5x Olympian Epee and Foil Coach National Champion Helene Mayer German and U S fencer foil Olympic champion Gerek Meinhardt foil fencer Sharon Monplaisir foil fencer Tim Morehouse 3 4 won silver medal in men s sabre at 2008 Summer Olympics George S Patton 4th out of 27 fencers in 1912 Olympic Games Julia Jones Pugliese first U S women s intercollegiate fencing champion 1929 founded the Intercollegiate Women s Fencing Association with Dorothy Hafner and Elizabeth Ross first woman coach of an international U S fencing team coached NYU women s team 1932 1938 and Hunter team 1956 1992 Janice Romary 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 Olympian foil fencer Jason Rogers saber team silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics Giorgio Santelli legendary coach to 5 U S Olympic teams 1928 1952 Olympic gold medalist 1920 Men s Sabre Team son of Italo Santelli known as the father of modern sabre fencing and an Olympic silver medal winner fought duel after his father was insulted by Italian team Captain Maitre Michel Sebastiani coached fencing at Princeton University 1982 2006 and before that coached fencing at Brooklyn College New York University NYU and Cornell Coached his teams to 11 national championships In 1994 and again in 2006 was named the most outstanding Coach of the Year by U S Fencing Coaches Association USFCA Developed 5 NCAA individual men s champions and 3 NCAA individual women s champions Was a 1960 French Modern Pentathlon Olympic Team selection 5 Keeth Smart first American to be ranked 1 in the world member of the silver medal winning U S men s sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics member of 2004 gold medal U S Men s Sabre team at World Cup Soren Thompson U S epee World Team Champion US Junior Champion US champion NCAA champion Jonathan Tiomkin 2x U S foil champion Rebecca Ward bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics in women s sabre 2005 FIE Jr World Champion at age 15 Bronze medal in sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gold in Women s Sabre team sy 2005 World Championship 2006 Cadet World Champion 2006 Jr World Champion 2006 Jr World Champion Team member Peter Westbrook bronze medalist in the 1984 Summer Olympics 13x U S National Men s Sabre Champion author of Harnessing Anger founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation teaching and helping youth through sport Ruth White competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics was the first African American woman to represent the United States at the Olympics and is a Pan American Games medalist 6 George Worth born Gyorgy Woittitz U S saber Olympic bronze U S champion 3x Pan American champion Mariel Leigh Zagunis 2x Olympic gold medalist in women s sabre in the 2008 Summer Olympics and in the first ever women s sabre event at the 2004 Summer Olympics first American woman to win gold first American to win gold since 1904 Member of the bronze medal winning U S women s sabre team at the 2008 Summer OlympicsVenezuela Ruben Limardo Men s Individual Epee Olympic Champion 2012 2013 Budapest World Championship silver medalist Fencing masters of the pre Olympic era edit14th century Fiore dei Liberi15th century Johannes Liechtenauer Sigmund Ringeck Peter von Danzig Cod 44 A 8 Hans Talhoffer16th century Camillo Agrippa Giacomo di Grassi Antonio Manciolino Achille Marozzo Angelo Viggiani Giovanni Dall Agocchie Vincentio Saviolo George Silver Joachim Meyer17th century Francesco Alfieri Salvator Fabris Ridolfo Capo Ferro Girard Thibault18th century Domenico Angelo Chevalier de Saint Georges19th century Alfred HuttonFamous duelists and fencing enthusiasts editOtto von Bismarck Tycho Brahe George Byron Winston Churchill Rene Descartes Neil Diamond Bruce Dickinson Albrecht Durer Reinhard Heydrich Jean Francois Lamour Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery Benito Mussolini George S Patton General and U S Army Master of the Sword Designer of the Model 1913 Cavalry Saber 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the first modern pentathlon competition Ranked 1st in fencing 8th overall Jose Rizal Theodore Roosevelt Sylvester Stallone Arnold Schwarzenegger Otto SkorzenyReferences edit Ivan Osiier International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Retrieved 28 January 2014 http usfencinghalloffame com roll of honor 349 bilodeaux caitlin Archived 2015 04 02 at the Wayback Machine Elfman Lois Our Olympic Moment Tim Morehouse Heads To London Chutzpah July 25 2012 Accessed July 26 2012 Much of his sense of determination is inspired by his Jewish heritage His maternal grandmother and two of her sisters escaped from Germany in the mid 1930s My middle name Frank is the last name of my Jewish heritage My sense of being Jewish comes from my awareness of my grandmother s courage and determination to live in the face of enormous difficulties He will also continue training because he plans to compete in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2013 Ficha XVI Juegos Panamericanos Guadalajara 2011 Archived from the original on 2016 01 01 Retrieved 2015 12 07 Sebastiani Michel Archived from the original on 2012 06 26 Retrieved 2012 12 14 Henneman Kristen 27 February 2017 Olympian Ruth White Found Freedom in Fencing USA Fencing Retrieved 3 September 2019 External links editMasters Wiktenauer the world s largest library of HEMA books and manuscripts Insquequo omnes gratuiti fiant Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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