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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 .
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 ]
Helene Julie Mayer (20 December 1910 – 10 October 1953) was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish ...
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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]
A young girl goes through all the emotions watching Katie Ledecky win historic gold Katie Ledecky (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images / NBC) Sometimes we take Katie Ledecky's greatness for granted, but ...
Vezzali was the first fencer in Olympic history to win three individual foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Vezzali won nine Olympic medals in all: five in individual foil (three gold, one silver, one bronze) and four in team foil (three gold, one bronze).