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Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE (born 30 June 1931) is a British former five-time-Olympian
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and
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 contain ...
fencer, and world champion.


Early life

Jay was born in London, England, and is Jewish. His father died fighting in World War II in 1943. He attended
Cheltenham College ("Work Conquers All") , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent School Day and Boarding School , religion = Church of England , president = , head_label = Head , head = Nicola Hugget ...
from 1944 to 1948. He spent much of his childhood in Australia. After 1950 he returned to Britain to study law at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
, and later worked as a solicitor while serving as fencing official with the
Fédération Internationale d'Escrime The ''Fédération Internationale d'Escrime'' ( en, International Fencing Federation), commonly known by the acronym FIE, is the international governing body of Olympic fencing. Today, its head office is at the Maison du Sport International i ...
. Jay and his wife Carole have two children.


Fencing career

Jay competed internationally in 1950 for Australia. He was a five times British champion winning five titles at the
British Fencing Championships The British Fencing Championships are held annually to determine the British champion. The Championships are currently held at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield. The championships were not held during World War I, World War II and in 20 ...
, épée champion in 1952, 1959, 1960, and 1961, and foil champion in 1963. Jay competed in five Olympics in both épée and foil, winning silver medals at the
1960 Rome Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...
in individual and team épée. He was Great Britain's flag bearer in the 1964 Olympic Games. At the
World Fencing Championships The World Fencing Championships is an annual competition in fencing organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE; ''International Fencing Federation'' in English). Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events. Hi ...
, Jay won a bronze medal in team foil in 1955, a bronze medal in individual foil in 1957, and a gold medal in individual foil while also winning a silver medal in individual épée in 1959, becoming the first British world champion in foil and the last fencer to win two individual medals in one year. He won a gold medal in epee at the 1950 Maccabiah Games. He won three gold medals while fencing both foil and épée (where he won the gold medal in 1953, defeating American Ralph Goldstein in the final) at each of the 1953 Maccabiah Games and the 1957 Maccabiah Games. He is a member of the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere arou ...
, having been elected in 1985.


See also

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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 ...
* List of select Jewish fencers


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Commonwealth Games medalsJews in Sports bioJewish Sports Legends bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jay, Allan 1931 births Living people British male fencers Australian male fencers Jewish male épée fencers Jewish male foil fencers English Jews Olympic fencers of Great Britain Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in fencing Fencers at the 1950 British Empire Games Fencers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Fencers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Fencers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Fencers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Members of the Order of the British Empire Sportspeople from London International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Jewish British sportspeople Maccabiah Games medalists in fencing Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Great Britain Competitors at the 1950 Maccabiah Games Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games Competitors at the 1957 Maccabiah Games Commonwealth Games medallists in fencing People educated at Cheltenham College Alumni of the University of Oxford English solicitors English Olympic medallists