Mark Midler

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Mark Midler
Personal information
Born (1931-09-24)24 September 1931
Moscow, Soviet Union
Died 31 May 2012(2012-05-31) (aged 80)[1]
Sport
Sport Fencing
Medal record
Mens' fencing[2]
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Gold 1960 Rome Team foil
Gold 1964 Tokyo Team foil

Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; 24 September 1931 – 31 May 2012) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.[3]

Fencing career

Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.[4] He won two Olympic gold medals.

In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.[5]

World Championships

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.

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.

Miscellaneous

He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.[5]

Coaching career

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

Hall of Fame

Midler, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[6]

See also

  • List of select Jewish fencers

References

  1. ↑ "NOS Sport - Schermlegende Midler overleden". Nos.nl. Retrieved 2012-06-01. 
  2. ↑ "Olympics Statistics: Mark Midler". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 2010-09-25. 
  3. ↑ "Mark Midler Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-09-25. 
  4. ↑ Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games. (in Russian) (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 564. 
  6. ↑ Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Hall of Fame - Joseph Siegman - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-06-01. 

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