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Giorgio Santelli
''Maestro'' Giorgio Santelli (25 November 1897 – 8 October 1985) was a fencer and fencing master who was part of the Italian team that won the gold medal in Men's team sabre at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States, and creator of one of the best-known fencing equipment manufacturers. Biography Born in Budapest, Hungary, but always keeping his Italian citizenship, Giorgio was the son of Italo Santelli, a renowned fencing master from Italy who revolutionized sabre technique and was called the "Father of Modern Sabre Fencing". Giorgio was an Olympian in 1920, where he won a gold medal in the team sabre. He won the Austrian, Hungarian, and Italian sabre championships, and the Austrian and Hungarian foil championships—equivalent to winning the Olympics in two different weapons. Santelli fought and won a famous duel with Adolfo Cotronei, arising out of an Olympic fencing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Worth
George Vitéz Worth (born György Woittitz; April 1, 1915 – January 15, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American sabre Olympic medalist fencer. Early and personal life Worth was born György Woittitz in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. Because of the political climate in Hungary in 1937, Worth sought to emigrate to the United States, but he was unable to do so directly because he was Jewish and spent two years in Cuba. Worth finally came to the United States, and changed his name to George Worth, and at the age of 22 he was living in Manhattan in New York City. He became a US citizen. Worth served for the US in World War II, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and 1945, winning several Bronze Stars. He later served as Captain of the South Orangetown, New York Ambulance Corps and Chief Commissioner of the Orangeburg, New York Fire Department. Fencing career Worth began fencing while he was a youth in Hungary, at Salle Santelli, the salle d’armes of Italo Santelli, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaddick Longenbach
Zaddick Longenbach (born October 27, 1971) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... He later became an art collector. References External links * 1971 births Living people American male foil fencers Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Pennsylvania Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Fencers at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{US-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Axelrod
Albert "Albie" Axelrod (February 12, 1921 – February 24, 2004) was an American foil fencer. He was a five-time Olympian for the US, won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, and was the only American men's foil fencer to reach the finals at the world championships until Gerek Meinhardt won a bronze medal in the 2010 World Fencing Championships. Fencing career High school Axelrod was Jewish, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who had fled the pogroms, grew up in the Bronx. A heart murmur kept Axelrod from participating in most sports, so his mother encouraged him to learn fencing at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. After graduation in 1938, he studied with 1920 Olympic champion Giorgio Santelli and won amateur titles as a member of the Salle Santelli club. College Axelrod served in the US Navy in World War II, and then attended the City College of New York. His college team reached the National Team Foil Championships in 1948, the same year he was U.S. Intercolleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Goldstein
Ralph Myer Goldstein (October 6, 1913 – July 25, 1997) was an American Olympic épée fencer. Early and personal life Goldstein was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and was Jewish."Goldstein, Ralph," ''Jews In Sports''. He grew up on the in Manhattan, New York, and attended , fencing for the college's fencing team. He lived in , New York, and in |
Robert Blum (fencer)
Robert Blum (November 24, 1928 – November 27, 2022) was an American Olympic fencer. Early and personal life Blum was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was Jewish."Blum, Bob". Jews In Sports. He attended , and practiced law for 50 years. His wife was Barbara Blum, who became a high-ranking social services official."Barbara Blum, Who Rescued Abused Willowbrook Residents, Dies at 82," ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Lewis (fencer)
Norman Lewis (December 10, 1915 – June 6, 2006) was an American Olympic épée fencer, who also competed in foil. He later lived in Kew Gardens, New York, and on Candlewood Lake in Connecticut. He and his wife Eva had two daughters, Susan and Joan. Fencing career He fenced for New York University, for whom Lewis was Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) foil champion (1935, 1936, 1937) and épée champion (1937), and his fencing club was Salle Santelli. Lewis won the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA)/ AAU United States National Fencing Championship in foil in 1939, and in épée in 1948, 1949, and 1950. Lewis competed in the individual (coming in 9th, despite defeating both the Swiss silver medalist Oswald Zappelli and the Italian bronze medalist Edoardo Mangiarotti) and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He served as captain of the US fencing team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He later served as President of the Amateur Fencers League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Wright (fencer)
Ed Wright (July 21, 1949 – March 20, 2017) was an American fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 P .... He taught fencing in Cincinnati, Ohio. References External links * 1949 births 2017 deaths American male foil fencers Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Brooklyn {{US-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Ballinger
Edward Ballinger (born October 25, 1951) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He is married to Sally Pechinsky. He is retired from coaching at the Boston Fencing Club. He was elected for induction into the USFA Hall of Fame in the summer of 2012. See also *List of USFA Division I National Champions This is a list of USA Fencing (USFA) Division I national champions. The Division I National Championship in each weapon was contested at Summer Nationals until recently, when it started taking place during the April North American Cup. Men's Fenci ... References External links * 1951 births Living people American male épée fencers Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Fencers from New York City Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Fencers at the 1975 Pan American Games American male foil fencers 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise O'Connor
Denise O'Connor (born May 18, 1935) is an American former fencer. She competed for the United States in the women's team foil events at the 1964 and 1976 Summer Olympics. She also fenced in five World Championships (1965, '66, '69, '70, '75), and the 1975 Pan American Games in which she won a bronze medal. She was coach of the Brooklyn College women's fencing team for over a decade, ultimately becoming the college’s Assistant Director of Athletics. In 1975 and 1976, she was National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association College Coach of the Year. O'Connor has been a resident of Bayonne, New Jersey.Staff"New Jersey Sports; En Garde! Touchez!" ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...'', April 3, 1973. Accessed February 7, 2018 ."As a resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lang (fencer)
Martin Lang (born May 20, 1949) is an American former foil fencer. Early and personal life Lang was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, later lived in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York, and is Jewish."Lang, Tishman Head N.Y.U. Fencing Team," ''The New York Times''. He attended in Queens, along with Steve Kaplan who also became an Olympic fencer. After graduating from NYU with a Bachelor of Science degree, he attended New York University for graduate studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriah Jones
Uriah Jones (December 15, 1924 – June 14, 2000) was an American fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... Career In 1968, Jones became the first African-American fencer to represent the United States at the Olympics. He was also a member of the U.S. National, U.S. World, and U.S. Pan American championship teams. Jones competed for the Salle Santelli club, winning three titles in 1964, 1968, and 1972. Jones won several championships, winning six Connecticut championships, four North Atlantic championships, and two American championships. He also won medals on four occasions while competing in the international Martini and Rossi international tournament. At the age of 50, Jones opened up his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
