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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 ...
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 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 ...
[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 ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1996 Atlanta details France (FRA) Laura Flessel Sophie Moressée-Pichot Valérie Barlois Italy (ITA) Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi Russia (RUS) Maria Mazina Yuliya Garayeva Karina Aznavourian: 2000 Sydney details Russia (RUS) Karina Aznavourian Oksana Yermakova Tatiana Logunova Maria Mazina Switzerland (SUI)
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.
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Thrust fencing (using Pariser) and cut fencing (using Korbschläger or Glockenschläger) existed in parallel in Germany during the first decades of the 19th century—with local preferences. So thrust fencing was especially popular in Jena, Erlangen, Würzburg and Ingolstadt/Landshut, two towns where the predecessors of Munich University were ...