Ildikó Rejtő (also known as ''Györgyné Sági'', formerly ''Jenőné Újlaky''; born 11 May 1937) is a retired Hungarian two-time Olympic and five-time World Champion

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fencer.

Early and personal life

She was born in

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, Hungary, and is

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. She was born deaf.''The Armchair Olympian: How Much Do You Know About Sport's Biggest Competition?''
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since she was a teenager, which caused her father to enroll her in fencing lessons, in order to help straighten her back.

Career highlights

Because she was deaf, when she started fencing at age 15 she learned by reading written instructions from her coaches. She won the junior girls world foil championship in 1956–57, and was the Hungarian women's foil champion in 1958."Seattle’s Derrick Coleman: another great deaf sportsperson"
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in 1963 and 1964. She represented Hungary in every Olympics from 1960 to 1976 and won seven Olympic medals, two gold (one each in foil individual and foil team), three silver (three foil team), and two bronze (one each in foil individual and foil team). At the

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in Rome at the age of 23, she won a team silver medal in women's foil.IldikÃ³ RejtÅ-Ujlaky-SÃ¡gi , Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
/ref> At the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo at the age of 27, she won both an individual and a team gold medal in women's foil. At the

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in Mexico City at the age of 31, she won an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in women's foil. At the

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in Munich at the age of 35, she won a team silver medal in women's foil. At the

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in Montreal at the age of 39, she won a team bronze medal in women's foil. She won the 1963 individual foil

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title, and the 1962, 1967, and 1973 team foil World Championships titles. As a senior, she won the women's foil competition at the World Veterans Championships in 1999. Rejtő was inducted as a member of the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rejto, Ildiko 1937 births Living people Hungarian female foil fencers Jewish foil fencers Olympic fencers for Hungary Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in fencing Jewish Hungarian sportspeople Fencers from Budapest Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Hungarian deaf people Deaf sportspeople 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen

Early and personal life

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