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Adrianus Egbert Willem "Adriaan" "Arie" de Jong (21 June 1882 – 23 December 1966) was a fencer who competed at five Olympic Games.
However, he had his greatest international success with the sabre, where he won the first two World Championships in 1922 and 1923.
With the épée, he won bronze at the 1912 Olympics and silver at the 1922 world championships.
During the individual sabre event at the 1924 Olympics, he reached the semi-finals against Hungarian Mens Sabre Individual at Sports Reference
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Adrianus Egbert Willem "Adriaan" "Arie" de Jong (21 June 1882 – 23 December 1966) was a fencer who competed at five Olympic Games.
However, he had his greatest international success with the sabre, where he won the first two World Championships in 1922 and 1923.
With the épée, he won bronze at the 1912 Olympics and silver at the 1922 world championships.
During the individual sabre event at the 1924 Olympics, he reached the semi-finals against Hungarian Sándor Pósta
Sandor Posta (25 September 1888 – 4 November 1952) was a Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion in the sabre competition.
Sandor Posta's early fencing career was interrupted by service in the First World War. During fighting in t ...
and was leading by three hits when an audience member fell through his chair. This distracted the jury, who failed to see De Jong's decisive hit. Disrupted, De Jong lost the bout. De Jong eventually finished fifth (one ahead of eventual seven-time Danish Olympian Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier
Dr. Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier (December 16, 1888 – December 23, 1965), was a Danish Olympic medalist, and world champion, fencer who fenced foil, épée, and saber. He was given the Olympic Diploma of Merit during his career. He is also one ...
) while Pósta went on to win gold./ref>
See also
*List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
A small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction ever competes in multiple Games. 849 athletes (260 women and 589 men) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Beiji ...
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