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| Born | 24 September 1931 Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; born September 24, 1931, in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.[2]
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Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.[3] He won two Olympic gold medals.
In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.[4]
Midler captured World Championship titles in the Foil event four consecutive years: 1959–62. 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.[2]
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.
He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.[4]
Midler has served through the years as one of the old Soviet Union’s and Russia’s Olympic coaches.
Midler, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[5]