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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 .
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
Edoardo Mangiarotti. Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italian pronunciation: [edoˈardo mandʒaˈrɔtti]; 7 April 1919 – 25 May 2012) [2] was an Italian fencer.He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport.
These are the best funny quotes to make you laugh about life, aging, family, work, and even nature. Enjoy quips from comedy greats like Bob Hope, Robin Williams, and more. 134 funny quotes that ...
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
Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". [1] He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games . [ 2 ]
Pawlowski seemed never-ageing. In all, he was a world finalist 17 times. In 1973 he reached the final (that is, a round-robin of six fencers) for the last time, aged 42, and only narrowly missed a medal, nearly 20 years after his first. But the following year he was eliminated in the quarter-finals, and never represented his country again. [2]
Maestro Giorgio Santelli (25 November 1897 – 8 October 1985) was a fencer and fencing master who was part of the Italian team that won the gold medal in Men's team sabre at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States, and creator of one of the best-known fencing equipment manufacturers.