Viktor Alekseyevich Krovopuskov (; born 29 September 1948 in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

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) is a retired

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 ...

fencer, who competed for the

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. Krovopuskov began fencing at age 13 at the

Children and Youth Sport School A sports school () is a type of educational institution for children that originated in the Soviet Union. Sports schools were the basis of the powerful system of physical culture (fitness) and sports education in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, pa ...

in Moscow, his first trainer being Igor Chernyshev. In 1967, he joined the

Armed Forces Sports Society The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces ( ''sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA''; , ''Fizkulturno-sportivnoe obyedinenie Vooruzhonnykh Sil SSSR''), also called the Sports Clubs of the Sovie ...

. He was a member of the USSR National Team between 1973 and 1986. At the 1976

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he won gold medals in both the individual and team sabre events. He repeated his performance at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

, where he, again, won gold medals in both events. Krovopuskov was world champion in individual sabre twice (1978 and 1982), and team sabre five times (1974, 1975, 1979, 1983, and 1985). He also won the World Cup in sabre twice (1976 and 1979). In 1979, he was named the Best Sabre Fencer of the World by the

International Fencing Federation The International Fencing Federation (''Fédération Internationale d'Escrime'') commonly known by the acronym FIE, is the international Sport governing body, governing body of Olympic Games, Olympic fencing. Today, its head office is at th ...

. He was awarded the

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour () was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports ...

in 1976 and the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

in 1980.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krovopuskov, Viktor 1948 births Living people Fencers from Moscow Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian male fencers Soviet male fencers 20th-century Russian sportsmen