Jenő Fuchs

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The native form of this personal name is Fuchs Jenő. This article uses the Western name order.

Men's Fencing
Olympic medalist
Fuchs in 1912
Medal record
Competitor for Hungary
Gold	1908 London	Individual sabre
Gold	1908 London	Team sabre
Gold	1912 Stockholm	Individual sabre
Gold	1912 Stockholm	Team sabre

Dr. Jenő Fuchs (October 29, 1882 – March 14, 1955, in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.^[1]

Fencing career

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Fuchs was Jewish,^[2] and the Jews had been barred from bearing arms in the 19th century. He did not belong to any fencing club or win any national tournament, but made it to the Olympics by coming in third in a qualifying competition for the 1908 Olympics.

Olympics

Fuchs won his first gold medals in Individual and Team Sabre at the 1908 London Olympic Games.

Four years later, he repeated those twin victories at the 1912 games in Stockholm. Fuchs was undefeated at the 1912 Olympiad en route to his gold medals.

In 25 individual matches during his Olympic career, Fuchs’ record was: 22 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw.

Hall of Fame

Fuchs was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1982.

References

↑ "Jenő Fuchs Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
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External links

Jewish Sports bio
Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-284-8.
"From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary"; 1985

Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Individual Sabre

Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Team Sabre

1896 – 1904
1908: Hungary (Fuchs, Gerde, Tóth, Werkner, Földes)
1912: Hungary (Berti, Földes, Fuchs, Gerde, Mészáros, Schenker, Tóth, Werkner)
1920: Italy (Baldi, Allochio, Cesarano, Gargano, A. Nadi, N. Nadi, Puliti, Santelli, Urbani)
1924: Italy (Anselmi, Balzarini, Bertinetti, Bini, Cuccia, Moricca, Puliti, Sarrocchi)
1928: Hungary (Tersztyánszky, Garay, Petschauer, Rády, Gombos, Glykais)
1932: Hungary (Petschauer, Nagy, Glykais, Piller, Gerevich, Kabos)
1936: Hungary (Gerevich, Berczelly, Kovács, Kabos, Rajcsányi, Rajczy)
1948 – 1952: Hungary (Gerevich, Berczelly, Kárpáti, Kovács, Rajcsányi, Papp)
1956: Hungary (Gerevich, Kárpáti, Kovács, Keresztes, Hámori, Magay)
1960: Hungary (Gerevich, Kárpáti, Kovács, Horváth, Delneky, Mendelényi)
1964: Soviet Union (Mavlikhanov, Rakita, Rylsky, Melnikov, Asatiani)
1968: Soviet Union (Mavlikhanov, Rakita, Sidyak, Nazlymov, Vinokurov)
1972: Italy (Maffei, Rigoli, Salvadori, M.A. Montano, M. T. Montano)
1976: Soviet Union (Sidyak, Nazlymov, Krovopuskov, Burtsev, Vinokurov)
1980: Soviet Union (Alyokhin, Sidyak, Nazlymov, Krovopuskov, Burtsev)
1984: Italy (Marin, Dalla Barba, Scalzo, Meglio, Arcidiacono)
1988: Hungary (Nébald, Szabó, Bujdosó, Gedővári, Csongrádi)
1992: Unified Team (Kiriyenko, Shirshov, Pohosov, Gutzeit, Pozdnyakov)
1996: Russia (Kiriyenko, Sharikov, Pozdnyakov)
2000: Russia (Sharikov, Pozdnyakov, Frosin)
2004: France (Pillet, D. Touya, G. Touya)
2008: France (Pillet, Sanson, Lopez)
2012: South Korea (Gu B-G, Won W-Y, Kim J-H, Oh E-S)

Persondata
Name	Fuchs, Jeno
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian fencer
Date of birth	October 29, 1882
Place of birth
Date of death	1950
Place of death

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