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Dariusz Wódke
Dariusz Wódke (born 26 February 1957) is a Polish former world champion sabre fencer. He won the individual sabre championship at the 1981 World Fencing Championships. He won bronze medals in team sabre at the 1979 World Fencing Championships The 1979 World Fencing Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia. Medal table Medal summary Men's events Women's events References {{World Fencing Championships World Fencing Championships International fencing competitions hos ... and 1981 World Fencing Championships. After retiring from competitions, he became a fencing coach in Italy. He has been the first fencing coach of Camilla Mancini (world gold 2017, team foil) and followed the development of Manuela Spica (Italian junior champion 2023). References Polish male sabre fencers 1957 births Living people Fencing_coaches 21st-century Polish sportsmen 20th-century Polish sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) {{Poland-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabre
A sabre or saber ( ) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the Early Modern warfare, early modern and Napoleonic period, Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the hussars, the sabre became widespread in Western Europe during the Thirty Years' War. Lighter sabres also became popular with infantry of the early 17th century. In the 19th century, models with less curving blades became common and were also used by heavy cavalry. The military sabre was used as a duelling weapon in academic fencing in the 19th century, giving rise to a discipline of modern Sabre (fencing), sabre fencing (introduced in the Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896 Summer Olympics) loosely based on the characteristics of the historical weapon. Etymology The English ''sabre'' is recorded from the 1670s, as a direct loan from French, where ''sabre'' is an alteration of ''sable'', which was in turn loaned from German ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |