Újpesti TE Újpesti Torna Egylet (Újpesti TE or UTE) is a Hungarian sports society, based in Újpest, Budapest. The club, which was founded in 1885, includes sports sections that represent the club at ice hockey, men's water polo, women's volleyball, at ...

created a

fencing Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. It consists of three primary disciplines: Foil (fencing), foil, épée, and Sabre (fencing), sabre (also spelled ''saber''), each with its own blade and set of rules. Most competitive fe ...

section in 1922, which had one of the most successful teams in

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Achievements

Current squad

Technical and Managerial Staff

Fencing team officials according to the official website:

Athletes

Men's squad

Women's squad

Fencing Hall

*Name: UTE Vívócsarnok *City:

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

*Address: H-1077 Budapest, VII. district, Király u. 71.

International success

Olympic medalists

The team's olympic medalists are shown below.

World Championships

European Championships

Notable former fencers

Sabre A sabre or saber ( ) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the Early Modern warfare, early modern and Napoleonic period, Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such a ...

Endre Kabos Endre Kabos (5 November 1906 – 4 November 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer. He competed individually and with the team at the 1932 and 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics and won three gold and one bronze medals. In the fall of 1935, the Nazi reg ...

Imre Gedővári Imre Gedővári (1 July 1951 – 22 May 2014) was a Hungarian fencer and Olympic gold medalist. He won his first World Championship medal, a silver, in 1975 and made his Olympic debut in 1976. He won his first World Championship gold m ...

* Zoltán Nagyházi * László Csongrádi * Bence Szabó *

Csaba Köves Csaba Köves (born 27 October 1966, in Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limi ...

* József Navarrete *

Péter Abay Péter Abay (born 13 May 1962) is a Hungary, Hungarian fencing, fencer, who won a silver medal in the team sabre competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with György Nébald, Bence Szabó (fencer), Bence Szabó, Imre Bujdos ...

Épée The (, ; ), also rendered as 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 a ...

Pál B. Nagy Pál B. Nagy (born 2 May 1935) is a Hungarian fencing, fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. References External links

* 1935 births Living people Hungarian male épée fencers Olympic fe ...

Zoltán Székely Zoltán Székely ( Hungarian: Székely Zoltán; 8 December 1903 in Kocs, Hungary – 5 October 2001 in Banff, Canada) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Biography Székely studied violin with Jenő Hubay and composition with Zoltán Kod� ...

Foil Foil may refer to: Materials * Foil (metal), a quite thin sheet of metal, usually manufactured with a rolling mill machine * Metal leaf, a very thin sheet of decorative metal * Aluminium foil, a type of wrapping for food * Tin foil, metal foil ma ...

* Paula Marosi *

Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Ildikó is a Hungarian people, Hungarian feminine given name of Germanic origin; its original Germanic version is Ilda or Hilda. Its meaning is "battle" or "warrior" in ancient Germanic languages. Its medieval Latin version was Ildico, which the ...

Mária Szolnoki Mária Szolnoki (born 16 June 1947) is a Hungarian fencing, fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's team foil (fencing), foil at the 1972 Summer Olympics. References External links

* 1947 births Living people Hungarian female ...

* Gertrúd Stefanek * Ildikó Pusztai

References

External links

Fencing section website

Official Újpesti TE website
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Sports clubs and teams established in 1922 Fencing clubs