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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 Fencing Division I National Champions Women's Fencing Division I National Champions Other References {{DEFAULTSORT:Usfa Division I National Championship Fencing competitions Fencing in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Fencing Association
The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. The USFA was founded on April 22, 1891, as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) by a group of 20 New York City fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union, in a dispute over rules for national championships.Michelle Dunkley McCarthy, Peter Matthews (1992)''The Guinness Book of Records, 1993''/ref>Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood (2010)''The Encyclopedia of New York City'' Second Edition, Yale University Press. The AFLA changed its name to the United States Fencing Association in 1981 and again in 2010 to USA Fencing. History The organization was founded on April 22, 1891, in New York City, initially as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA). Graeme Hammond was its first president, from 1891 to 1925. It was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Pennsylvania in 1964. The organization changed its name to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Mattern
Cody Mattern (born February 23, 1981) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He coached at the Northwest Fencing Center, in Beaverton, Oregon. Fencing He started fencing at Northwest Fencing Center, in 1996. In 1998 and 1999, he won the Junior National Championships. In 2001 he won Division 1A, and Division 1 National Championships. He won the silver at a World Cup Grand Prix. He was an Olympic épée fencer at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cody was on the men's Épée team that rolled in at second place at the 2010 World Fencing Championships, in Paris. He also fenced at the 2012 World Fencing Championships Kiev, winning the Gold in men's Team Épée. See also *List of USFA Division I National Champions This is a list of USA Fencing The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. The USFA was founded on April 22, 1891, as the Amateur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lofton
Mika'il Sankofa (born Michael Lofton, 10 December 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a world recognized sabre fencer and coach. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. Background During his fencing career, Sankofa trained under Tanya Adamovich, Csaba Elthes, Peter Frohlich, Szabo Adrosh, Christian Bauer and Lazlo Szepesi. A graduate of New York University with a BA in Economics, Sankofa is a former publicist who has worked for firms such as Ernst & Young, Grey Advertising, Kirshenbaum, Bond & Partners and Shandwick International. From 1990 - 2009, Sankofa served as co-founder, director of athletics and fencing coach for the Peter Westbrook Foundation. He was responsible for running a year-round class for over 200 participants, including a number of elite-level athletes. Sankofa's students have included three NCAA champions, five national champions, six junior world team members, the 2005 Junior Olympic men's cadet an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Marx
Michael Marx (born July 7, 1958) is an American foil and epee fencer and fencing master. He is the brother of Robert Marx, who has also represented the U.S. in multiple Olympic fencing events. Michael and his brother were taught to fence by their mother, fencing coach Colleen Olney, who is considered by many prominent fencers to be "the mother of fencing in Oregon". Fencing career Marx won a silver medal in foil at the World University Games in 1985. He is an 8-time United States national men's foil champion (1977, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1993). He is also a five-time Olympian in both foil and epee (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996). Although Marx qualified for the 1980 Olympic team he did not compete due to the Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead. Marx won the silver medal in team foil at the Pan American Games in 1979 and 1983, and the bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Friedberg
John Friedberg (born March 9, 1961) is an American Olympic saber fencer. Early and personal life Friedberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is Jewish. He is the younger brother of Olympic fencer Paul Friedberg. He lives in Robbinsville Township, New Jersey. Fencing career Friedberg fenced for the University of North Carolina, took second in the NCAA Saber Championship in 1982, and won it as a senior in 1983. He was a three-time All American. Friedberg won silver medal in team sabre at the 1991 Pan American Games and gold in the 1995 Pan American Games. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Friedberg came in second in the 1993 US Championship in sabre, and won the 1994 US Championship in sabre. Friedberg founded and is head coach of the Fencing Club of Mercer County in New Jersey. 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 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Westbrook
Peter Jonathan Westbrook (born April 16, 1952) is an American former sabre fencing champion, active businessman and founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation. A former U.S. champion and Olympic medalist, Westbrook's career began when his Japanese mother convinced him to try fencing. He founded the Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit that uses fencing as a vehicle in developing life and academic skills for young people from under-served communities of New York City. Biography Westbrook's father, Ulysses, was a G.I. stationed in Japan during the Korean War, when he met Mariko, a Japanese woman from a sheltered home. Soon after their marriage they returned to the United States, travelling first to St. Louis, Missouri and eventually settling in Newark, New Jersey, where Peter and his younger sister Vivian were born. Peter's earliest memories are of frequent bouts of domestic violence. Peter was 4 when his father left, leaving his mother to raise the family with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Bravin
Eric Oliver "Nick" Bravin (born May 28, 1971) is an American fencer and lawyer.Bob Wechsler''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History''/ref> He was a four-time U.S. National Champion, a three-time NCAA National Champion, and a two-time Olympian. Early life Bravin is Jewish, and was born in Los Angeles, California."Bravin, Eric Nick," US Fencing Hall of Fame. His mother is Shawn Bravin. His older brother fenced, and his grandfather had been a top fencer in . His maternal grandfather was murdered by the Nazis in the or the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Normile
Jon Normile (born July 20, 1967) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He fenced for the Columbia Lions fencing team. Normile graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in civil engineering in 1989. He was inducted into the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. 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 * 1967 births Living people American male épée fencers Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Cleveland Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamir Bloom
Tamir Bloom (born December 24, 1971) is an American epee fencer. Personal life Bloom was born in New York City, and is Jewish. He is a cousin of Israeli Olympian judoka Gil Ofer. Bloom has both U.S. and Israeli citizenship. He attended Millburn High School. Bloom's father is artist Murray Bloom. Fencing career Bloom fenced for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers fencing team. Olympics At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Bloom placed 31st in individual epee. He was a member of the U.S. épée team that finished 8th. They were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Italy, 45–44. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in 1999, a few weeks before the World Fencing Championships in Seoul. He flew to Seoul with the intention of competing and possibly qualifying for the 2000 Olympics, but once there he was not allowed to compete because of his injury by the United States Fencing Association (USFA) Team manager. As it was too late to arrange for an alternate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhnaten Spencer-El
Akhnaten Spencer-El (born April 13, 1979) is an American sabre fencer. He competed in the individual sabre event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing 34th. Akhnaten Spencer-El joined the Columbia University fencing coaching staff in September 2013. He served as a coach for the United States in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. See also *List of USFA Division I National Champions This is a list of USA Fencing The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. The USFA was founded on April 22, 1891, as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) by a ... References External links * 1979 births Living people American male sabre fencers Olympic fencers of the United States Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Baltimore Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Fencer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Bayer
Cliff Bayer (born June 24, 1977, in New York City) is an American two-time Olympian foil fencer. Early and personal life Bayer was born in New York City, and is Jewish. College In 1996, he was the NCAA Foil Champion while at the University of Pennsylvania, where he attended the Wharton School of Business, fencing for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers fencing team. He also earned an MBA from Wharton. US championships Bayer won the 1995 U.S. National Championship while still a senior at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. He was, at age 17, the youngest person to win the national championship—an honor that he held until 2007, when Gerek Meinhardt won the championship at the age of 16. He also won the U.S. National Championship in 1997, 1998, and 2000. Olympics At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Bayer placed 34th in the individual foil competition, and was a member of the U.S. foil team that finished 10th. Bayer was ranked No. 8 in the world in foil at the start of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris O'Loughlin (fencer)
Christopher Stuart O'Loughlin (born December 13, 1967) is an American Olympic épée fencer. Early life O'Loughlin was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin, known for the 1970s ABC television drama police procedural series ''The Rookies.'' His mother, Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin was vice president of casting for Columbia Pictures Television. He grew up in Van Nuys, California, and is Jewish.Vittorio Tafur (July 26, 1990)"Acting Career Foiled by Love of Swordplay: Fencing: Van Nuys native cuts wide swath in U.S. circles with an epee, but international success proves elusive,"''Los Angeles Times''. Accessed June 5, 2022. While he initially had an interest in pursuing acting, O'Loughlin noted: "One of the things that I really like about fencing is that you get out of it what you put into it. That's not true with acting." He was introduced to fencing as a youth when he attended the Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California, which offered fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
