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Edoardo Mangiarotti, won more Olympic titles and World championships than any other fencer in the history of the sport; a member of the Mangiarotti fencing clan. Aldo Nadi , won gold and silver medals at 1920 Olympics ; during the Mussolini years emigrated to US, where he penned the influential "On Fencing" and his autobiographical notes ...
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 ...
not included in the Olympic program: 2012 London details Italy (ITA) Andrea Baldini Giorgio Avola Andrea Cassarà Valerio Aspromonte Japan (JPN) Ryo Miyake Yuki Ota Kenta Chida Suguru Awaji Germany (GER) Peter Joppich Sebastian Bachmann Benjamin Kleibrink André Weßels: 2016 Rio de Janeiro details Russia (RUS) Timur Safin Aleksey Cheremisinov
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 ...
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 ...
The Haus des Deutschen Sports (German: House of German sports), part of the larger Deutsches Sportforum, is a sporting venue constructed for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Located in Olympiapark Berlin to the northeast of the Olympic Stadium, it hosted the fencing events and the fencing part of the modern pentathlon event.
West Germany: Dorina Vaccaroni Italy: 1988 Seoul details: Anja Fichtel West Germany: Sabine Bau West Germany: Zita-Eva Funkenhauser West Germany: 1992 Barcelona details: Giovanna Trillini Italy: Wang Huifeng China: Tatyana Sadovskaya Unified Team: 1996 Atlanta details: Laura Badea Romania: Valentina Vezzali Italy: Giovanna Trillini Italy: 2000 ...