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  2. List of fencers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Olympic medalists in fencing (men) - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Edoardo Mangiarotti - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. History of fencing - Wikipedia

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    Neapolitan fencing is a style of fencing that originated in the city of Naples at the beginning of the 15th century. Neapolitan Fencing School is considered to be one of the most powerful fencing schools in Italy. This school produced many renowned fencing masters and contributed significantly to the evolution of fencing techniques and pedagogy.

  6. Vladimir Smirnov (fencer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. World Fencing Championships - Wikipedia

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    The fencing competitions at the Summer Olympics have served as the World Championships of the year for the relevant events. [citation needed] Since 1932, World Championships have been held during the Olympic years only for those events not being held during that year's Summer Olympics. For the years 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, and 1956, World ...

  8. Nedo Nadi - Wikipedia

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    Nedo Nadi was born in Livorno, Italy, the elder son of famous Italian fencing master, Giuseppe (Beppe) Nadi. He had a younger brother, Aldo who was an Olympic gold medallist in his own right. Nedo had his first fencing lesson with a foil at the age of seven in his father’s gymnasium at Livorno.

  9. Soren Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Soren Hunter Miles S Thompson [2] (born May 5, 1981) is an American épée fencer, team world champion, and two-time Olympian.He represented the United States in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he reached the quarterfinals and came in 7th, the best US result in the event since 1956 and at the time the second-best US result of all time.