- Jenő Fuchs
Dr. Jenő Fuchs (
October 29 ,1882 –March 14 ,1955 ) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.Fencing career
Born in
Budapest, Hungary , Fuchs wasJewish , and the Jews had been barred from bearing arms in the 19th century. He did not belong to any fencing club or win any national tournament, but made it to the Olympics by coming in third in a qualifying competition for the 1908 Olympics. [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:IsRYso3k2-gJ:www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf+Jen%C3%B6+Fuchs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us]Olympics
Fuchs won his first
gold medal s in Individual and Team Sabre at the 1908London Olympic Games.Four years later, he repeated those twin victories at the 1912 games in
Stockholm .Fuchs was undefeated at the 1912 Olympiad en route to his gold medals.
In 25 individual matches during his Olympic career, Fuchs’ record was: 22 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw.
Hall of Fame
Fuchs was inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/Sport/Fencing.htm]Links
* [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JenoFuchs.htm Jewish Sports bio]
*cite book
title=Jewish Sports Legends
author=Joseph Siegman
year=2000
publisher=Brassey's
isbn=1574882848
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA72&lpg=RA1-PA72&dq=%22jewish+sports+legends%22+fencing+axelrod&source=web&ots=37b0EtiD5Z&sig=F8kRY7nCTjoLbYJxHU5eZpy3tDU
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:IsRYso3k2-gJ:www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf+Jen%C3%B6+Fuchs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us "From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary"; 1985]
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