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Germany (GER) Siegfried Lerdon August Heim Erwin Casmir Julius Eisenecker Stefan Rosenbauer Otto Adam: Épée, Individual details: Franco Riccardi Italy: Saverio Ragno Italy: Giancarlo Cornaggia Medici Italy: Épée, Team details Italy (ITA) Alfredo Pezzana Edoardo Mangiarotti Saverio Ragno Giancarlo C. Cornaggia-Medici Giancarlo Brusati Franco ...
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 ...
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 times (1956–1976), twice at all three weapons.
Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are three forms of Olympic fencing: Foil — a light thrusting weapon; the valid target is restricted to the torso; double touches are not allowed.
Fencing has a long history with universities and schools for at least 500 years. At least one style of fencing, Mensur in Germany, is practiced only within academic fraternities. Mensur is unique in its focus on ritualized dueling, where participants engage in controlled bouts designed to test their courage, endurance, and skill without the ...
Germany (GER) Sven Schmid Jörg Fiedler Daniel Strigel: 2008 Beijing details France (FRA) Jérôme Jeannet Fabrice Jeannet Ulrich Robeiri Poland (POL) Robert Andrzejuk Tomasz Motyka Adam Wiercioch Radosław Zawrotniak Italy (ITA) Stefano Carozzo Diego Confalonieri Alfredo Rota Matteo Tagliariol: 2012 London: not included in the Olympic program
Women's Epee Semi-Final between defending champion Britta Heidemann of Germany and Shin A-lam of Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Never-Ending Second was a controversial moment in the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's Épée Semi Final which happened on the 30th of July 2012. [1] The bout was between Britta Heidemann of Germany and Shin A-lam of
Gudrun Theuerkauff, née Vorbrich (born 8 April 1937) is a German fencer. She won a bronze medal in the women's team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]