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Alexandre Lippmann (11 June 1881 – 23 February 1960) was a French Olympic champion
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fencer. He won two Olympic gold medals, as well as three other Olympic medals.


Early and personal life

Lippmann was born in Paris, France, in the 17th arrondissement. Through his mother, Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, he was the grandson of Alexandre Dumas and great-grandson of French writer
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, author of ''
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''. His father was Jewish.Un jour, un médaillé olympique : Alexandre Lippmann, l'escrimeur descendant d'Alexandre Dumas - ''Dictionnaire des médaillés olympiques français''
/ref>T''he International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame'' - Joseph M. Siegman
/ref> Lippmann was also a genre painter.


Fencing career

In 1909, he won the French épée championship. He won five medals, including two
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s, at three different Olympic Games: a team gold and an individual silver in the 1908 Olympics in London at 26 years of age, a team bronze and individual silver in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp at 38 years of age, and a team gold in the 1924 Olympics in Paris at the age of 42. He missed out on the opportunity to fence in two other Olympic Games. This was because French fencers did not compete at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm because France disagreed with the rules of the competition, and World War I caused the cancellation of what would have been the 1916 Summer Olympics. Lippmann was inducted into the
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in 1984.Alexandre Lippmann
/ref> He died in 1960, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.


See also

* List of select Jewish fencers


References


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