Mark Midler

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Men's Fencing
Gold	1960 Rome	Team foil
Gold	1964 Tokyo	Team foil

Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; born September 24, 1931, in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer.

Contents 1 Fencing career 1.1 World Championships 1.2 Olympics 1.3 Miscellaneous 2 Coaching career 3 Hall of Fame 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Fencing career

Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.^[1] He won two Olympic gold medals.

In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.^[2]

[edit] World Championships

Midler captured World Championship titles in the Foil event four consecutive years: l959-62. He was also a member of Soviet Foil teams that won World Team Championships five times: in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966. In 1967, Midler’s Soviet Foil team won a silver medal. Midler won a World Championships silver medal in Individual Foil in 1957, and Individual bronze medals in 1959 and 1961.[1]

[edit] Olympics

Midler was named captain for the 1960 Olympic Games. Captain Midler's team won a gold medal in Team Foil at the Rome Olympics.

Four years later, at the Tokyo Games--again as captain--his Soviet team won their second consecutive Team Foil gold medal.

[edit] Miscellaneous

He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.^[2]

[edit] Coaching career

Midler has served through the years as one of the old Soviet Union’s and Russia’s Olympic coaches.

[edit] Hall of Fame

Midler, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
2. ^ ^{a b} Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 564. 

[edit] External links

• Olympic results
• Jewish Sports Legends bio
• Jewish Sports bio