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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 ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details Mixed team (ZZX) Ramón Fonst Albertson Van Zo Post Manuel Díaz United States (USA) Charles Tatham Charles Townsend Arthur Fox: None awarded: 1908–1912: not included in the Olympic program: 1920 Antwerp details Italy (ITA) Aldo Nadi Nedo Nadi Abelardo Olivier Pietro Speciale Rodolfo Terlizzi ...
Edoardo Mangiarotti was born into a famous fencing family on 7 April 1919. Giuseppe Mangiarotti , a Milanese fencing master and 17 times national épée champion, planned his son’s championship career and molded him into an awkward opponent by converting a natural right-hander to a left-hander.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1924 Paris details: Ellen Osiier Denmark: Gladys Davis Great Britain: Grete Heckscher Denmark: 1928 Amsterdam details: Helene Mayer Germany: Muriel Freeman Great Britain: Olga Oelkers Germany: 1932 Los Angeles details: Ellen Preis Austria: Judy Guinness Great Britain: Erna Bogen-Bogáti Hungary: 1936 Berlin details ...
In October 2005, Zagunis won her seventh World Champion title at the Leipzig, Germany World Championships, in the women's team event. A year later at the 2006 World Fencing Championships she won the silver, after losing the final to Rebecca Ward. She is the second U.S. fencer in history to have won the World Cup total-points Title from the FIE.
During the 1982 World Fencing Championships in Rome, Italy, in the team foil event the 28-year-old world champion Smirnov, ranked #1 in the world, was fencing 27-year-old Matthias Behr of West Germany, ranked #2 in the world, on 19 July in the quarter-finals of the team event. [5] [6] The two fencers initiated a simultaneous attack. [5]
Nedo Nadi (9 June 1894 – 29 January 1940) was one of the best Italian fencers of all time. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most fencing gold medals ever at a single Games—five.
[citation needed] Anderson joined the Royal Marines and won several combined services titles in the sport of fencing. He served in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. [2] As a competitive fencer, he represented Great Britain at the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympic Games, [3] and the World Championships in 1950 and 1953 in the sabre event ...