List of notable fencers

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[edit] Fencers & coaches of the Olympic era

Austria
  • Otto Herschmann, Austrian fencer (saber); one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports; won a silver medal in sabre team competition in 1912
  • Ellen Preis, Austrian fencer (foil), Olympic champion
Belarus
  • Elena Belova (Novikova) - foilist, 1968 individual Olympic Champion, 1969 individual World Champion, member of the winning Soviet team at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympics and the 1970, 1971, and 1974 World Championships
  • Viktor Sidjak - Olympic (1972) and World (1969) Champion, winner of the 1972 and 1973 World Cup, also a member of the winning team at the 1968, 1976, and 1980 Olympics and at the 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1979 World Team Championships; pupil of David Tyshler
Belgium
  • Henri Anspach, Belgian fencer (épée and foil), Olympic champion
  • Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (épée and foil), 2-time Olympic champion
China
Denmark
  • Dr. Ivan Osier -- represented Denmark in 7 Olympic Games between 1908 and 1948. Participated in more Olympiads than any other athlete. Won his only Olympic medal in 1912, a silver in Individual Epee. Won a total of 25 Danish National Championships in all 3 fencing weapons — foil, epee, and sabre. Was also Scandinavian Foil titleholder in 1920, 1921, 1923, 1927, 1929, and 1931; was Epee Champion in 1920; and was Sabre Champi­on in 1921, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1933.
Estonia
  • Svetlana Chirkova-Lozovaja - The most successful Estonian fencer at the Soviet era. Olympic gold medal for Women's Foil team event at the 1968 Summer Olympics, World champion at the Women's Foil team event at 1971, silver 1969, individual World Championships bronze medal 1969.
  • Kaido Kaabermaa - Estonian épéeist, bronze (1990) and gold (1991) at the World Championships team event (as a part of Soviet Union team). Individual World Championships bronze (1999).
France
  • Lucien Gaudin - twice World Champion (1905 and 1918), won four Gold and three Silver Olympic medals covering all three weapons
  • Laura Flessel-Colovic - French epeeist, who, with two gold, a silver and two bronze medals, is the current most successful female French sportswoman at the Winter or Summer Olympics.
  • Christian d'Oriola - Between 1947 and 1956 won four World Championships and six Olympic Medals, plus many team titles. Renowned for his elegant style.
  • Jean Stern, French fencer (épée), Olympic champion
Germany
  • Helene Mayer - German-Jewish foilist, won Gold at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1929 World Chamnpionship, left for the US in 1931, returned to represent Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics and won Silver, went back to the US and was granted US citizenship, returned to Germany in 1952 and died of cancer in 1953, won the US Championships a total of eight times
Great Britain
  • Robert Bruniges - World Junior Foil Champion 1976, 3 times Olympian
  • Richard Cohen - 5-time British sabre Champion, best known today as the author of "By the Sword", a highly acclaimed book on the history of fencing
  • Allan Jay - Epee and foil fencer; 4-time national champion
  • Richard Kruse - Foilist, the most successful male British fencer for several decades, reached the quarter-finals (L8) at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in 2006 he won the silver medal in Men's Foil at the European championships, pupil of Ziemowit Wojciechowski
  • Barry Paul - Foilist, 5 times British national Champion, 3 times Olympian and Managing Director of the only manufacturer of fencing equipment in the UK,
  • James Williams - Sabreur, reached L16 at the 2000 Summer Olympics, known for his flamboyant fencing style and unbelievable fitness levels, recently retired from competitive fencing
Hungary
  • Ilona Elek, Hungarian fencer (foil), 2-time Olympic champion
  • Jenö Fuchs, Hungarian fencer (saber), Olympic champion
  • Oskar Gerde, Hungarian fencer (saber), Olympic champion
  • Aladar Gerevich - Hungarian sabreur who is the only athlete to win the same Olympic event six times.
  • Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (saber), Olympic champion
  • Istvan Szelei, Hungarian fencer (Foil), 1980 and 1988 Olympic Squads.
  • László Szabó - Hungarian master who 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.
  • Bela Valter - Hungarian master and Olympic coach
  • Imre Vass - authored a widely read guide to épée fencing
  • Francis Zold (1904-2003) - Hungarian fencing master and a legendary promoter and teacher of fencing in the post-war US; a student of Italo Santelli, he served as captain of the Hungarian fencing team at the London Olympics in 1948. He emigrated to the United States following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and worked as a fencing coach at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Southern California and Pomona College in Claremont, CA. He died in 2003 at the age of 99.
Israel
  • Andre Spitzer (1945 – September 6, 1972) was a Jewish Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by Palestinian extremists in the Munich massacre.
Italy
  • Edoardo Mangiarotti of Italy has 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 the 1920 Olympics, during the Mussolini years emigrated to the US, where he penned the influential "On Fencing" and his autobiographical notes entitled "The Living Sword", son of Beppe Nadi and brother of Nedo Nadi
  • Nedo Nadi - won 6 Olympic Gold medals: three foil, two sabre and one épée, son of Beppe Nadi and brother of Aldo Nadi
  • Italo Santelli - fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencing and developed the modern Hungarian style in the 1920s.
Poland
  • Zbigniew Czajkowski - highly respected coach, coached the Polish national squad for many years, has written over 25 books, has successful pupils in all weapons, including Ed Korfanty,Egon Franke, Elzbieta Cymerman, Jacek Bierkowski, Bogdan Gonsior, Magdalena Jeziorowska.
  • Sylwia Gruchala - women's foil fencer, silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic games in the team event, bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympic games in the individual event, individual silver medalist at the 2003 World Championship, many-time World Champion in the team event.
  • Ziemowit Wojciechowski - three time Champion of Poland, member of the Polish Olympic squad at the 1976 Olympics, defected to Great Britain in 1978, where he is renowned as a successful coach, pupils include Richard Kruse, Lawrence Halsted and Camille Datoo. From 2003-2005 he taught part-time at Highgate School, London.
Russia
  • Serguei Charikov - Jewish Russian sabreur, member of the winning Russian teams at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics
  • Pavel Kolobkov - épéeist, Olympic Champion 2000, five times World Champion (1991, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2005), twice Junior World Champion (1987, 1988), winner of the 1999 World Cup
  • Viktor Krovopouskov - sabreur, four-time Olympic Gold medalist (1976 and 1980 individual and team), twice individual World Champion (1978, 1982), twice winner of the World Cup (1976, 1979)
  • Mark Midler - foilist, a Jewish Russian member of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers, took Gold at 1956 and 1960 Olympics as a part of the Soviet team, won four consecutive World Championships (1959-1962).
  • Vladimir Nazlymov - sabreur/coach, won the individual World Championship in 1975 and 1979 and the World Cup in 1975 and 1977, took team Gold at the 1968, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and at the 1967, 1969-1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979 World Championships, twice named the world's best sabre fencer by the FIE, currently head fencing coach of The Ohio State University fencing team.
  • Boris Onishchenko - modern pentathlete, individual silver medallist and team gold medallist in 1972, disqualified in 1976 for using a rigged weapon
  • Stanislav Pozdniakov - sabreur, Olympic (1996) and World (1997, 2001, 2002) Champion, seven times winner of the World Cup (1994-1996, 1999-2002), member of the winning Russian sabre team at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics and at the 1994, 2001, 2002 and 2003 World Championships
  • Mark Rakita - Jewish Russian sabreur, twice Olympic Champion (1964, 1968), World Champion in 1967, David Tyshler's pupil and a highly successful coach in his own right (pupils include Victor Krovopouskov, Michail Burtsev, and Viktor Sidjak)
  • Yakov Rylsky - Jewish Russian sabreur, twice Olympic (1964, 1968) and three times World (1958, 1961, 1963) Champion, represented the USSR over a period of 14 years (1953-1966)
  • Sergey Sharikov - Jewish Russian sabreur, twice Olympic Champion (1996, 2000)
  • Viktor Sidjak - Soviet sabreur, four-time Olympic Gold medalist
  • Vladimir Smirnov - foilist, won individual Gold at the 1980 Summer Olympics, won the world championships in 1981, died at the 1982 World Championships in Rome, when a broken blade went through his mask causing a fatal brain injury (through the left eye orbit--not the eye itself); his death prompted an extensive review of safety standards in fencing. Most notably it prompted stronger masks (the mesh must withstand a 12kg probe on a regular mask, 25kg on an FIE mask. Smirnov's mask at the time of his injury was less than half as strong as the non-FIE masks of today when he obtained it. By the time of his injury, it had likely deteriorated from use and was even weaker) 800 Newton resistant fabric in the jacket, underarm protector, and knickers (1600N in the mask bib) maraging steel blades in foil and epee (which, contrary to fencing urban myth, are not designed to "break flat". They simply break less frequently than carbon steel blades) and various rules re-clothing overlap and placement of zippers and seams. All of these changes were designed to minimize the chance of a blade getting through the protective clothing. Tragic though his death was, it ultimately resulted in making the sport statistically safer than golf.
  • David Tyshler - Jewish Russian sabreur, member of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers, won medals at the 1956 Olympics and five World Championships, best known for his achievements as a coach, one of the founding fathers of the Soviet school of fencing, pupils include Mark Rakita, Viktor Sidjak and Victor Krovopouskov
  • Eduard Vinokurov - Jewish Russian sabreur, twice Olympic Champion (1968, 1976)
  • Iosif Vitebskiy - Russian epee fencer, 19-time national championship medalist
South Korea
  • Young Ho Kim - Olympic foil Champion 2000. Additionally, was down 11-3 to Sergei Golubitsky in the third and final period of the men's foil gold medal bout at the 1997 World Championships. Since the necessary score to reach to win was 15 touches, most people would consider Kim to be fencing for pride at this point. Instead, he rallied and scored 8 touches in a row on Golubitsky -- seven of them being one-light hits -- to tie it up at 11 all. They then traded touches until Golubitsky won his first of three world titles 15-14.
Sweden
Ukraine
  • Sergei Golubitsky - World foil Champion 1997, 1998, 1999; Winner of the 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1999 World Cup, Olympic Silver Medalist 1992.
United States of America
  • Abraham Balk, only man to win both foil & epeé NCAA championships (1947)
  • Daniel Bukantz, Jewish American Olympian, U.S. Foil Fencer, Member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  • Delmar Calvert, Personnel Coach for 17 National Champions, Former Coach of Los Angeles Athletic Club
  • Csaba Elthes, legendary coach to 6 U.S. Olympic teams, immigrated from Hungary
  • Nick Evangelista, specializes in early 20th Century fencing, calling it 'classical' to distinguish it from current sport fencing.
  • Sada Jacobson, Jewish American bronze medallist in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Sabre; first American female to be ranked #1 in the world, and the second American ever to be ranked # 1 in the world.
  • Ed Korfanty, U.S. National women's sabre team coach. Formerly Polish national coach. Coach to 7 x Jr. World Sabre Champion Olympic Gold medallist & 2006 NCAA Champion Mariel Zagunis, 2004 Cadet Sabre champion, Caitlin Thomas, 2006 Cadet & Jr. World Champion Rebecca Ward, 2000 and 2005 U.S. World Champion sabre team. 2002, 2003, and 2006 World Veterans Champion in Men's sabre.
  • Michael Marx 5-time Olympian, Epee and Foil Coach, National Champion
  • Helene Mayer, German and US fencer (foil), Olympic champion
  • Sharon Monplaisir
  • Lisa Piazza, member, 1985 U.S. World Championship team; first alternate, U.S. team, 1988 Olympics.[1]
  • Janice Romary, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 Olympian U.S. Foil Fencer.
  • 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 saber fencing" and an Olympic silver medal winner), fought a duel after his father was insulted by Italian team Captain.
  • Maitre Michel Sebastiani coached fencing at Princeton University from 1982-2006, and before that coached fencing at Brooklyn College, New York University (NYU), and Cornell. He coached his teams to 11 national championships. In 1994 and again in 2006 he was named the most outstanding Coach of the Year by the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA). He developed 5 NCAA individual men's champions and 3 NCAA individual women's champions. He was a 1960 French Modern Pentathlon Olympic Team selection.
  • Keeth Smart, first American to be ranked # 1 in the world, member of 2004 gold medal US Men's Sabre team at World Cup
  • Rebecca Ward, 2005 FIE Jr. World Champion at age 15. Part of the U.S. Sr. Women's Sabre team that took the 2005 World Championship title (other members were Sada Jacobson, Caitlin Thompson, and Mariel Zagunis. 2006 Cadet World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion, 2006 Jr. World Champion Team member, 2nd fencer in history to win 3 world titles in one season (Teammate Zagunis was the first).
  • Peter Westbrook, bronze medallist in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 13-time US National Men's Sabre Champion, author of Harnessing Anger, founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation, teaching and helping youth through sport.
  • Mariel Zagunis, gold medallist in the first-ever Women's Sabre event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Sabre; first American woman to win gold; first American to win gold since 1904.

[edit] Fencing masters of the pre-Olympic era

[edit] Famous duellists and fencing enthusiasts

[edit] Members of the contemporary classical fencing community

[edit] Members of the historical fencing community

  • Keith Beattie
  • Sean Hayes
  • Tom Leoni
  • Andrea Lupo Sinclair
  • Paul Macdonald


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/newnews/news022006b.html
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