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| Born | 15 August 1950 Iserlohn, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Volker Fischer (born 15 August 1950) is a German fencer. He won a gold medal and two silvers at three Olympic Games. [1] [2]
He keeps fencing in the Veterans category, with excellent results. For example, he won the World Veterans Championship at Debrecen in 2014. [3]
Sherraine Schalm, formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, is a former top-ranked Canadian Olympic épée fencer. She is a World Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa. At the 2005 World Fencing Championships she won a bronze medal in the individual épée event, becoming the first Canadian to ever win a World Championships medal in the sport. The next season, in 2005–06, she won the overall World Cup title.
Ernő Kolczonay was a Hungarian épée fencer, who won two Olympic silver medals in the Épée competitions. He was a member of the Hungarian fencing team that won the world championship in Hamburg, 1978. He was runner-up in the 1979 world championship (Melbourne) and the 1982 European Championship (Mödling).
Pál Gerevich is a Hungarian fencer, who won two Olympic bronze medals in the team sabre competitions. Pál Gerevich won the world championships in sabre fencing in 1977 and is currently coaching the Viennese fencing club Wiener Sportclub.
Maureen Nisima is a French épée fencer, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics alongside Laura Flessel-Colovic, Hajnalka Kiraly Picot and Sarah Daninthe.
Julien Pillet is a French sabre fencer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist: he won gold medals in the sabre team events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal in the sabre team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He finished 4th in the individual sabre event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
George Vitéz Worth was a Hungarian-born American sabre Olympic medalist fencer.
Cliff Bayer is an American two-time Olympian foil fencer.
Éric Srecki, born on 2 July 1964 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, is a French fencer and a champion in the épée competition at the Olympic and World champion levels.
Bas Verwijlen is a Dutch right-handed épée fencer and four-time Olympian.
Diego Occhiuzzi is an Italian fencer and olympic medal winner in team sabre competition. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's sabre where he lost to Áron Szilágyi in the final round to win the silver medal. He was also part of the Italian men's sabre team that won the bronze medal.
Lee Sang-ki is a South Korean male épée fencer.
Choi Byung-Chul is a South Korean foil fencer.
Jung Jin-Sun is a South Korean right-handed épée fencer, four-time team Asian champion, four-time individual Asian champion, three-time Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic bronze medalist.
Angelo Mazzoni is an Italian épée fencer who competed at six consecutive Olympics between 1980 and 2000, winning gold medals in 1996 and 2000.
Theodor Fischer was a German épée and foil fencer. He fenced in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and won two medals in fencing at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.
Claude Nigon was a French fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Péter Bakonyi (Buchwald) is a Hungarian Olympic sabre fencer. He won two Olympic bronze medals, and one World Championship gold medal.
Egypt competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012, sending one of its largest delegations ever. A total of 110 Egyptian athletes participated in 83 events across 20 sports, with more women taking part than ever before. The nation's flagbearer in the opening ceremonies was Hesham Mesbah, a judoka who was Egypt's only medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Egypt won two medals during the course of the Games: Alaaeldin Abouelkassem earned silver in the men's foil, becoming the first competitor from an African nation to win a fencing medal, while Karam Gaber captured silver in the men's 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling event. Two Egyptian weightlifters were awarded medals retroactively, after higher-ranked competitors were disqualified for doping: Abeer Abdelrahman took silver in the women's 75 kg event, while Tarek Yehia, received bronze in the men's 85 kg event. Among other achievements, Mostafa Mansour was the nation's first competitor in sprint canoeing while fencer Shaimaa El-Gammal became the first Egyptian female to appear in four editions of the Olympics.
Manuel Pereira is a Spanish fencer. In 1989 he became the first Spaniard to earn a gold medal in épée in the World Fencing Championships. He also competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.
Fabian Kauter is a Swiss right-handed épée fencer and two-time Olympian.
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