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Fencers and coaches of the Olympic era

Austria
Siegfried Flesch
  • Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), sabreur, Olympic silver
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch, sabreur and Olympic bronze medalist
  • Otto Herschmann, sabreur; one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports; won silver medal in sabre team competition in 1912
  • Ellen Preis, fencer (foil), Olympic champion, 3× world champion, 17× Austrian champion
Belarus
  • Alexandr Romankov, foil fencer
  • Viktor Sidjak, Olympic (1972) and World (1969) Champion, winner of the 1972 and 1973 World Cup, also member of the winning team at 1968, 1976, and 1980 Olympics and at 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1979 World Team Championships; pupil of David Tyshler
Belgium
Paul Anspach
Brazil
  • Renzo Agresta, Brazilian fencer in individual sabre events at 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics
  • Roberto Lazzarini, Brazilian fencer at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics
  • Élora Pattaro, Brazilian fencer in women's individual sabre event at 2004 Olympics
  • Fernando Scavasin, Brazilian fencer in the foil events at the 2016 Olympics
Bulgaria
China
Denmark
  • Ellen Osiier, Denmark foil fencer, Olympic champion
  • Dr.
    Ivan Osiier, represented Denmark in seven Olympic Games between 1908 and 1948. Won the silver medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics, 25× Danish champion.[1]
Estonia
Irina Embrich
  • Julia Beljajeva, épéeist, World Champion in Individual Women's Épée (2013). European Champion in Team Women's Épée (2013).
  • Svetlana Chirkova-Lozovaja, most-successful Estonian fencer of the Soviet era. Olympic gold medal for Women's Foil team event at 1968 Summer Olympics
    , World champion in Women's Foil team event at 1971, silver 1969, individual World Championships bronze medal 1969.
  • Irina Embrich, épéeist, silver (2002) at World Championships women's team event, bronze (2003) at European Championships women's team event, silver (2006) at World Championships women's individual event, bronze (2007) at World Championships and European Championships women's individual event. European Champion in Team Women's Épée (2013).
  • Sven Järve, épéeist, bronze in Individual Men's Épée (2006).
  • Kaido Kaaberma, épéeist, bronze (1990) and gold (1991) at World Championships team event (as a part of the Soviet team). Individual World Championships bronze (1999). Team World Championships silver (2001).
  • Nikolai Novosjolov, épéeist, 2x World Champion in Individual Men's Épée (2010, 2013). Team World Championships silver (2001). European Championships silver (2012).
Finland
France
Yves Dreyfus
  • Romain Cannone, fencer (epee), Olympic champion
  • Marc Cerboni, fencer (foil), won bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics .
  • Yves Dreyfus, fencer (épée), national champion and 2x Olympic bronze medalist
  • Lucien Gaudin, twice World Champion (1905 and 1918), won four gold and three silver Olympic medals covering all three weapons
  • Laura Flessel-Colovic, épéeist with two gold, a silver and two bronze medals
  • Alexandre Lippmann, fencer (épée), Olympic champion, 2× silver, bronze
  • Armand Mouyal, fencer (épée), Olympic bronze, world champion, national champion
  • Claude Netter, fencer (foil), Olympic champion, silver
  • FIE
    , International Fencing Federation, in 2001. Between 1947 and 1956 won four World Championships and six Olympic Medals, including two individual gold (foil), one individual silver (foil), two team gold (foil), and one team silver (foil). In addition to 4x Individual World Champion, 4x team world champion.
  • Jean Stern, fencer (épée), Olympic champion
Georgia
  • Sandro Bazadze, sabre, world championship bronze, 2x European champion
Germany
Helene Mayer
  • Helene Mayer, German-Jewish foilist, won gold at 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1929 World Championship, left for US in 1931, returned to represent Germany in 1936 Summer Olympics and won silver, went back to US and was granted US citizenship, returned to Germany in 1952 and died of cancer in 1953, won the US Championships eight times.
Great Britain
Allan Jay
Richard Kruse
  • Connie Adam, fencer, took up fencing aged 60 and went on to win 140 medals.
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    . Coached Britain's national fencing team for 20 years.
  • 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 times (1956–1976), twice at all three weapons. Eight times British champion, won four Commonwealth gold medals and one silver at different weapons.
  • Allan Jay, Épée and foil fencer; Olympic 2× silver, world champion, 4x national champion
  • Ralph Johnson, Epeeist, 4x Olympian, Commonwealth Games Épée Team Champion 1970, 6x British Épée champion,. Also British Under-20 Foil Champion 1967 and British Junior Foil Champion 1971
  • Richard Kruse, Foil, reached quarter-finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, won silver in Men's Foil at 2006 European Championships. First British fencer to achieve the world's top ranking.
  • Barcelona 1992
  • Barry Paul, Foil, 3x Olympian, 5x British national champion, Managing Director of the only manufacturer of fencing equipment in the UK
  • Raymond Paul, 2x Commonwealth Games gold medalist
  • René Paul, competed at four Olympics and won 10 Commonwealth Games medals
  • Edgar Seligman, won British championship twice in each weapon, twice won Olympic silver (épée)
  • James Williams – Sabreur, reached L16 at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Hungary
Endre Kabos
Attila Petschauer
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
  • Péter Bakonyi
    (born (Buchwald)), Hungarian sabre fencer, 3x Olympic bronze, one World Championship gold medal
  • László Borsody, fencing master
  • Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Hungarian fencer (foil), 2x Olympic champion
  • Sándor Erdös
    , fencer (épée), Olympic champion
  • Dezső Földes, fencer (sabre), 2x Olympic champion
  • Jenő Fuchs, fencer (sabre), 4x Olympic champion
  • Tamás Gábor, fencer (épée), Olympic champion
  • János Garay, fencer (sabre), Olympic champion
  • Oskar Gerde
    , fencer (sabre), 2x Olympic champion
  • Aladár Gerevich, sabreur; only athlete to win the same Olympic event six times.
  • Pál Gerevich, sabreur; son of Aladár Gerevich; Individual Sabre World champion (1977), 4x Team Sabre World champion (1973, 1978, 1981, 1982); "Hungarian Sportsman of the Year" (1977)
  • Sándor Gombos, fencer (sabre), Olympic champion
  • Endre Kabos, fencer (sabre), 3x Olympic champion, bronze
  • Rudolf Kárpáti, 6x Olympic and 7x world sabre champion
  • Pál Kovács, fencer (sabre), 6x Olympic champion
  • Daniel Magay
    , fencer (sabre), Olympic champion
  • Ferenc Marki, fencing master
  • Tímea Nagy, fencer (épée), twice Olympic champion
  • Attila Petschauer, fencer (sabre), 2x Olympic champion
  • György Piller, fencer, Olympic champion and coach, fencing master
  • Zoltan Ozoray Schenker
    , fencer (sabre and foil), Olympic champion, silver, and bronze
  • Bence Szabó, fencer (sabre), 2x Olympic champion
  • László Szabó
    , master; defined a system for developing coaches and wrote "Fencing and the Master"; the only direct student of the legendary Italo Santelli to write of what he learned. Teacher of Olympic and World champions.
  • Emese Szász-Kovács fencer (epee), Olympic champion
  • Istvan Szelei
    , fencer (foil), 1980 and 1988 Olympic Squads.
  • Áron Szilágyi, fencer (sabre), 3x Olympic champion
  • Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
    , fencer (foil), 2x Olympic champion
  • Zsolt Vadaszffy, Foil Champion and British Professional Épée Champion. Senior Coach to British under-20 team for eight years.
  • Lajos Werkner, fencer (sabre), 2x Olympic champion
Israel
  • NCAA
    champion
  • Yuval Freilich (born 1995), European epee champion
  • Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann, Israeli fencer (foil), 16x Israeli national champion – Guinness Record, took part at three Olympic Games – Los Angeles 1984, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996.
  • Noam Mills, Israel (épée), female junior world champion
  • Ayelet Ohayon, Israeli fencer (foil), European champion
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Italy
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Korea (Republic of Korea)
Kim Ji-yeon
Philippines
  • Don Francisco Dayrit Sr.
    , fencer, known as the Father of Philippine Fencing, FIE Hall of Fame.
Poland
Jerzy Pawłowski
Romania
Mihai Covaliu
  • Ana Maria Brânză
    , team world champion in 2010, 4x European team champion
  • Mihai Covaliu, Olympic champion, coach of Romanian fencing team
  • Rareș Dumitrescu, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European champion with the team in 2006.
  • Tiberiu Dolniceanu, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European champion with the team in 2006.
  • Simona Gherman, world team champion in 2010, 4x European team champion
  • Anca Măroiu, world champion in 2010 with the team, 4x European team champion
  • Florin Zalomir, sabreur, won silver medal at 2012 Olympics in the team contest, world champion with the team in 2009, European team champion in 2006.
Russia/Soviet Union
Grigory Kriss
Vladimir Smirnov
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
  • Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
  • Sergei Golubitsky, World Foil Champion 1997, 1998, 1999; Winner of 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1999 World Cup, Olympic silver medalist 1992.
  • Vadim Gutzeit
    , Ukrainian fencer (saber), Olympic champion, world championship silver and bronze
  • Grigory Kriss, épée, Olympic champion, 2× silver
  • David Tyshler, saber fencer, Olympic bronze
  • Iosif Vitebskiy, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10x national champion, world champion
United States
Lee Kiefer
General George Patton
Soren Thompson
Mariel Zagunis
  • Maitre Michel Alaux (1924–1974), French-American fencing master and author; 3x U.S. Olympic coach.
  • Norman Armitage (born Norman Cudworth Cohn), 17x national sabre champion
  • Albert Axelrod, Jewish American bronze medalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in foil
  • Abraham Balk, only man to win both foil and epeé NCAA championships (1947)
  • Cliff Bayer, 4x U.S. foil champion
  • Caitlin Bilodeaux, 4x USFA Women's Foil Champ; tied for third on the women's championship list. Pan American Individual and Team champion, 1987, 2x NCAA women's foil champion. 2x U-20 National Champion.[2]
  • Tamir Bloom, 2x U.S. épée champion
  • Muriel Bower, first woman fencing master in the U.S.
  • Daniel Bukantz, Jewish American Olympian, foil fencer, member of Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  • Michael D'Asaro Sr., fencing master and coach
  • Eli Dershwitz, saber, world championship silver medal, US champion, world champion, junior world champion, 4x Pan-American champion, NCAA champion
  • Jed Dupree
    , 2004 Olympian, 2002 U.S. National champion, 2003 Pan American gold medal, 2001 NCAA Men's Foil champion,
  • Csaba Elthes, legendary coach to 6 U.S. Olympic teams, immigrated from Hungary
  • Race Imboden, 2012 Olympian, 2x U.S. National Men's Foil Champion, 2x Pan Am Champion, Men's Foil World Cup gold medalist
  • Nick Itkin, foil, Olympic bronze medal, world championship bronze medal, 2x NCAA champion, Pan American champion,
  • NCAA
    sabre champion, junior world champion
  • Sada Jacobson, Jewish American saber silver medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2x bronze medalist; first American female to be ranked # 1 in the world, and the second American ever to be ranked # 1 in the world, 2× world team champion.
  • Dan Kellner, U.S. foil champion
  • Lee Kiefer (born 1994), Olympic women's champion, 4x NCAA champion
  • Ed Korfanty, U.S. National women's sabre team coach. Formerly Polish national coach.
  • Byron Krieger, U.S. 2x Olympian, Pan American Games team gold/silver
  • Allan Kwartler, U.S. foil and sabre fencer, winner of gold medals in Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games
  • Michael Marx 5x Olympian, Épée and Foil Coach, National Champion
  • Helene Mayer, German and U.S. fencer (foil), Olympic champion
  • Gerek Meinhardt, foil fencer
  • Sharon Monplaisir, foil fencer
  • Tim Morehouse,[3][4] won silver medal in men's sabre at 2008 Summer Olympics
  • George S. Patton, 4th out of 27 fencers in 1912 Olympic Games
  • Julia Jones Pugliese
    , first U.S. women's intercollegiate fencing champion (1929), founded the Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (with Dorothy Hafner and Elizabeth Ross), first woman coach of an international U.S. fencing team, coached NYU women's team 1932–1938, and Hunter team 1956–1992
  • Janice Romary, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 Olympian foil fencer.
  • Jason Rogers, saber team silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Giorgio Santelli, legendary coach to 5 U.S. Olympic teams (1928–1952), Olympic gold medalist (1920 Men's Sabre Team), son of Italo Santelli (known as the "father of modern sabre fencing" and an Olympic silver medal winner), fought duel after his father was insulted by Italian team Captain.
  • Maitre
    Modern Pentathlon Olympic Team selection.[5]
  • Keeth Smart, first American to be ranked # 1 in the world, member of the silver medal winning U.S. men's sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, member of 2004 gold medal U.S. Men's Sabre team at World Cup
  • Soren Thompson, U.S. (épée), World Team Champion, US Junior Champion, US champion, NCAA champion
  • Jonathan Tiomkin, 2x U.S. foil champion.
  • Rebecca Ward, bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's sabre, 2005 FIE Jr. World Champion at age 15. Bronze medal in sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Gold in Women's Sabre team sy 2005 World Championship. 2006 Cadet World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion Team member.
  • Peter Westbrook, bronze medalist in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 13x U.S. National Men's Sabre Champion, author of Harnessing Anger, founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation, teaching and helping youth through sport.
  • Ruth White, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, was the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the Olympics and is a Pan American Games medalist[6]
  • George Worth (born György Woittitz), U.S. (saber), Olympic bronze, U.S. champion, 3x Pan American champion
  • Mariel Leigh Zagunis, 2x Olympic gold medalist in women's sabre (in the 2008 Summer Olympics and in the first-ever women's sabre event at the 2004 Summer Olympics); first American woman to win gold; first American to win gold since 1904. Member of the bronze medal winning U.S. women's sabre team at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Venezuela

  • Rubén Limardo, Men's Individual Épée Olympic Champion 2012, 2013 Budapest World Championship silver medalist.

Fencing masters of the pre-Olympic era

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

Famous duelists and fencing enthusiasts

References

  1. ^ "Ivan Osiier". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. ^ http://usfencinghalloffame.com/roll-of-honor/349-bilodeaux-caitlin Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Elfman, Lois. "Our Olympic Moment: Tim Morehouse Heads To London", Chutzpah, July 25, 2012. Accessed July 26, 2012. ""Much of his sense of determination is inspired by his Jewish heritage. His maternal grandmother and two of her sisters escaped from Germany in the mid-1930s.... "My middle name, Frank, is the last name of my Jewish heritage. My sense of being Jewish comes from my awareness of my grandmother’s courage and determination to live in the face of enormous difficulties." ... He will also continue training because he plans to compete in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2013."
  4. ^ "Ficha | XVI Juegos Panamericanos ..:: Guadalajara 2011 ::". Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  5. ^ "Sebastiani, Michel". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
  6. ^ Henneman, Kristen (27 February 2017). "Olympian Ruth White Found Freedom in Fencing". USA Fencing. Retrieved 3 September 2019.

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