- Sándor Gombos
Dr. Sandor Gombos (
December 4 ,1895 -January 27 ,1968 ) was a Hungarian fencer.Fencing career
Hungarian Championship
Gombos the Hungarian sabre champion in 1930.
World Championships
Gombos was World Champion, winning gold medals in individual sabre at the 1926 and 1927 European Championships, [http://sports123.com/fen/mw-sa.html] and gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1930 and 1931 European Championships.
The European Championships were predecessor to the World Championships, first held in 1937.
Olympics
He won a
gold medal in TeamSabre at the1928 Summer Olympics inAmsterdam , in which the Hungarian team went undefeated.In the individual competition, Gombos reached the finals but did not medal. After winning 8 of his 11 bouts, he finished in 5th place.
Miscellaneous
Gombos fought a duel in 1937 with a fencing instructor, which was reported in the Hungarian press. [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ECrg_31rmNMJ:www.s-port.de/david/bibliothek/jsh2503h.pdf+S%C3%A1ndor+Gombos+fencer&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=us]
Hall of Fame
Gombos, who was
Jewish , was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/Sport/Fencing.htm]Links
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* [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/SandorGombos.htm Jewish Sports bio]
* [http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=24 Jews in Sports bio]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA74&lpg=RA1-PA74&dq=sandor+gombos+gold&source=web&ots=37a9MwfD31&sig=AOrZO2LsOd5-Gfr17icFOC1-7vA Jewish Sports Legends bio]
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* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:GDLFLV4L5YMJ:www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/hunspir/hsp52.htm+S%C3%A1ndor+Gombos+jewish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us "The Hungarian Genius"]
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