Dezső Földes (30 December 1880 in

Miskolc Miskolc ( , , ; Czech language, Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the ...

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– 27 March 1950 in

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) was a Hungarian

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fencer.

Olympics

Földes won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Life

He was Jewish, and was born into a

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family in

. Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in

, where he died in 1950.

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Olympic record at databaseOlympics.com
1880 births 1950 deaths Sportspeople from Miskolc Jewish Hungarian sportspeople 19th-century Hungarian people 20th-century Hungarian people Jewish male sabre fencers Hungarian male sabre fencers Olympic fencers of Hungary Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Hungary-fencing-bio-stub

Olympics

Life

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