Paul Todd Makler Sr. (October 22, 1920 – May 12, 2022) was an American Olympic foil and épée fencer.

Early and personal life

Makler was born in

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, and was Jewish.Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver
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''Jewish Post''. He attended the

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, fencing for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers, and

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, graduating in 1964, became a physician, and practiced internal medicine for many years. His sons

Paul Makler Jr. Paul Todd Makler Jr. (born January 8, 1946) is an American Olympic saber and épée fencer. Early and personal life He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later lived in Merion, Pennsylvania, and is Jewish. After college, he attended and i ...

and

Brooke Makler Adrian Brooke Makler (March 16, 1951 – August 29, 2010) was an American Olympic foil and épée fencer. Early and personal life Makler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was Jewish.Martin Harry Greenberg''The Jewish lists: phys ...

fenced at the

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and the

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, respectively. Makler died in

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on May 12, 2022, at the age of 101.

Fencing career

Makler competed in the individual and team

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events at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

in Helsinki. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the

1955 Pan American Games The 1955 Pan American Games opened on March 12, 1955, in the University Stadium (now Olympic Stadium) in Mexico City, Mexico, in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators. A total number of 2,583 athletes from 22 nations marched in review ...

. Makler competed for Salle Csiszar, winning an

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(AFLA) national team épée title with the club in 1956. Makler was President of the American Fencing Association in 1962.

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