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Rudolf Brosch was an Austrian fencer. [1] He competed in the individual foil event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. [2] He also worked as a translator of the fencing books of Luigi Barbasetti, who was his fencing teacher, [3] and wrote books about fencing himself.
At the 1900 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. 260 fencers from 19 nations competed. The events took place at the Tuileries Garden.
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