Ronnie Ignatius Theseira (17 May 1930 – 18 June 2022) was a founder of the Malaysian Fencing Masters Association and a Malaysian

fencing Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, s ...

Olympian. He competed in the individual foil,

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 ...

, 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

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 ...

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* 1930 births 2022 deaths Sportspeople from Malacca Malaysian people of Kristang descent Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Malaysian male épée fencers Olympic fencers for Malaysia Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia Malaysian male foil fencers Malaysian male sabre fencers {{Malaysia-fencing-bio-stub