Alexandre Lippmann
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Olympic medal record | |||
Competitor for France | |||
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Men's fencing | |||
Silver | 1908 London | Individual epee | |
Gold | 1908 London | Team epee | |
Silver | 1920 Antwerp | Individual epee | |
Bronze | 1920 Antwerp | Team epee | |
Gold | 1924 Paris | Team epee |
Alexandre Lippmann, born in 1880, was a French Olympic epee fencer.
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[edit] Fencing career
[edit] Olympics
He competed in 3 Olympiads for France, winning 5 medals, including 2 golds.
He won a gold medal in Team Epee and a silver in Individual Epee at the 1908 Games in London.
He took the silver in Individual Epee and bronze in Team Epee at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
He won his second gold medal, in Team Epee, at the Paris Games of 1924.
[edit] Hall of Fame
Lippmann, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.[1]
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