Yury Gelman

Maestro Yury Gelman, 4 times USA Olympic Coach

Yury Gelman (born October 13, 1955) is the four-time Olympic Fencing Coach for the United States (Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London), National Men’s Sabre Coach, and Head Fencing Coach for 2001 NCAA Champion St. John’s University.

Yury Gelman is a founder of the Manhattan Fencing Center [1] in New York City and over the past fifteen years, Yury has prepared 22 students for the United States National Teams.

The US National Team, under Yury’s leadership, won the 2001 Gdansk Junior World Championships, the 2004 team Grand Prize, 4th Place at 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, 5th place at the 2005 Leipzicg Senior World Championship, and most recently the Silver Medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games [2] (Keeth Smart, Tim Morehouse,[3] James Williams, Jason Rogers).

In the 2001 Junior World Championships, Yury’s students, Ivan Lee and Tim Hagamen, were the first to bring a gold medal to the United States.

Maestro Yury Gelman was inducted into US Fencing Hall of Fame[4] on July 10 at the 2010 Summer National Championships in Atlanta.

References

  1. ↑ "Manhattan Fencing Center". Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  2. ↑ "The Official Website of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games". Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  3. ↑ "Saber Fencer and Olympic medalist Tim Morehouse". Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  4. ↑ "United States Fencing Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2011-05-22.

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