Grigory Kriss
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| Olympic medal record | |||
Competitor for the  Soviet Union |
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| Gold | Tokyo 1964 | Individual epée | |
| Silver | Mexico City 1968 | Individual epée | |
| Silver | Mexico City 1968 | Team epée | |
| Bronze | Munich 1972 | Team epée | |
Grigori Yakovlevich Kriss (Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Крисс) (born December 24, 1940,[1] in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet Russian world champion epee fencer.
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[edit] Fencing career
He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kiev.[1] Kriss was a member of the USSR National Team between 1963 and 1973.[2]
[edit] World Championships
In World Championships competition, Kriss won the Individual Epee silver medal in 1967, and Individual gold medal in 1971.[1]
He won 4 World Team Epee medals: bronze in 1965, silver in 1966, gold in 1969, and silver in 1971.
[edit] Olympics
Kriss won 4 Olympic medals in three Olympiads.
He captured a gold medal in Individual Epee at the 1964 Games.
In 1968, he earned silvers in both the Individual Epee and Team Epee events.
In 1972, Kriss won a bronze medal in Team Epee.
[edit] Hall of Fame
Kriss, who is Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 556.
- ^ (Russian) Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
[edit] Links
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