Abram "Abe" Dreyer Cohen (October 25, 1924 – February 2, 2016) was an American Olympic foil, epee, and sabre fencer.Bob Wechsler
''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History''
/ref>Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver
''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports''
/ref> Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was Jewish. His brother

Herb Cohen Herbert Cohen (December 30, 1932 – March 16, 2010) was an American personal manager, record company executive, and music publisher, best known as the manager of Judy Henske, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley, Odetta, Tom Waits, Geor ...

competed at the

1961 Maccabiah Games The 6th Maccabiah Games were held in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1961, with 1,100 athletes from 27 countries competing in 18 sports. The Games were officially opened in an Opening Ceremony on August 29, 1961, in Ramat Gan Stadium by Israeli President Yit ...

in Israel, won the

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

foil championship in 1961-62, won a bronze medal in individual foil and a gold medal with the US foil team at the

1963 Pan American Games The 1963 Pan American Games were held from April 20 to May 5, 1963, in São Paulo, Brazil. Host city selection For the first time, two cities submitted bids to host the 1963 Pan American Games that were recognized by the Pan American Sports O ...

, was Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) foil champion in 1964, and fenced individual and team foil for the United States in the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

Fencing career

He fenced for the

Fencers Club The Fencers Club in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City, is the oldest fencing club in the Western Hemisphere. It is a member of the Metropolitan Division of the U.S. Fencing Association. Established in Manhattan in 1883, it has evolved into a 501(c ...

in New York. In college, in 1948 he was a member of the NCAA Champion

CCNY The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City ...

team.Cohen, Abram – US Fencing Hall of Fame
/ref> In 1955 and 1956 he won the epee AAU/Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) United States National Fencing Championship.Martin Harry Greenberg
''The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews''
/ref> He won the silver medal in the 1955 Pan American Games team

épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ...

with Dick Dyer, Skip Shurtz, and

Harold Goldsmith Harold David Goldsmith (born Hans Goldschmidt), known as Hal (July 20, 1930 – March 13, 2004) was an American Olympic foil and epee fencer. Early and personal life Goldsmith was born in Gensungen, Felsberg, Hessen, Germany, and was Jew ...

. Cohen competed in the team épée and

sabre A sabre ( French: �sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...

events at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...

in Melbourne. He was the AFLA President’s 3-Weapon Champion in 1955 and 1956 and the winner of the 1957 and 1958

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 ...

Masters’ Sabre. He is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame (inducted in 2005), and the CCNY Athletic Hall of Fame (inducted in 1971).ABRAM COHEN Obituary - New York, NY , New York Times
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Abram 1924 births 2016 deaths American male foil fencers American male épée fencers Olympic fencers of the United States Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Brooklyn Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States City College of New York alumni CCNY Beavers fencers Jewish American sportspeople Jewish male épée fencers Jewish male foil fencers Jewish male sabre fencers Fencers at the 1955 Pan American Games 21st-century American Jews American male sabre fencers Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games

Fencing career

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