The champions of Fencing game in the history
Fencing is a famous game which is being played for numerous years. There are a lot of athletes from all over the world who played several tournaments around the world annually. Even though fencing has been an Olympic game for a lot of years, but still the
majority of community is unaware of many of the famed players of this game.
Fencing is a fascinating game which has been liked by lot of community. Iron Maiden was a singer, but in his younger age he was a very high standard fencer, but he preferred singing as his career.
Even Madonna also liked this sport and she acted as a fencer in James Bond movie. Neil Diamond was a singer, but he was also a fencing specialist. He started his fencing career from his early school and he got fencing scholarship to New York University and
became the National fencing Champion.
Below are some of the fencers, who showed excellent performance in fencing game:
Aladar Gerevich Hungarian most enduring fencing player, he won one gold and bronze and one silver medal in Sabre Individual and one bronze medal in Foil Individual and also has honour to win six gold medals in Sabre Team in six Olympics.
Gerevich won gold medals in Sabre team in 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics. At the 1936’s Individual Sabre competition in Berlin, he won the bronze medal. He also got a victory by winning a gold medal at 1948 Sabre Individual competition in
London. He earned a bronze medal in Foil Individual game in Helsinki, Finland.
He was known as one of the supreme fencing player in sabre. He won a lot of world championships in Team's category and three times in Individual. In 1960, when trials were being taken for Rome Olympics, the fencing committee stated that Gerevich was too
old to compete in the Olympics. He challenged the entire sabre team have to Individual matches and defeated everybody. He took active part to win the gold medal for his sabre team in 1960 Olympics. He died at the age of 81 in Budapest, Hungary.
One of the most popular and greatest Olympic fighters in United States was Albert Axelrod. He was an American foil fencer. Before Meinhardt won the bronze medal in 2010 fencing World Championship, Axelrod was the only foil fencer from America who reached
the World Championship Individual finals. He was ranked Number One in the United States ranking in 1955, 1958, 1960 and 1970 and number two, nine times in his life. Axelrod is the only person who was ranked in the United States in the top ten for 22 years
with a three-year gap due to his services for military.
In Pan American Games, he won three silver medals in Foil Individual in 1955, 1959, 1963 and 1967, silver for Foil Team in 1955 and 1967 and three gold medals in Foil Team in 1951, 1959 and 1963. In 1960’s Rome Olympics he got bronze in Foil Individual.
He was the member of five United States Olympic teams through 1950’s and 1960’s. In United States Championships he won the National Foil team championship five times (1940, 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1958).
Axelrod had a forceful and straight-ahead offensive technique which gave his opponents very tough time to compete. He remained the Editor of “American Fencing” magazine from 1986 to 1990 also. He was introduced into the International Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame in 1973 and 1974 in USFA Hall of Fame.
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