- Johan Harmenberg
Johan Harmenberg (born September 8, 1954, in
Stockholm, Sweden ) is a Swedishepee fencer.Harmenberg only completed two years of study at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 (he would have graduated in 1981) before returning to Sweden to pursue his fencing career. [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V99/PDF/N1.pdf] .Fencing career
He has won eight individual and/or team
epee gold medal s at Olympic, World Championship, and World Cup competitions.World Championships
He earned his World Championship titles in Individual Epee and Team Epee events at the 1977 competitions in
Buenos Aires . [http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html]He also won a bronze medal in Team Epee at the 1979 World Championships in
Hamburg .World Cups
Harmenberg captured three Individual Epee World Cup Championships within four years: 1977 (
Bern ), 1979 (Heidenheim ), and 1980 (Heidenheim). He also won team titles at the 1977 and 1980 World Cups.Olympics
At the 1980
Moscow Olympic Games , he won agold medal in Individual Epee. In three of the final matches he won by only one touch. [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:VOdkV9TGuhsJ:www.sok.se/inenglish/moscow1980.4.18ea16851076df63622800011020.html+Johan+Harmenberg&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=35&gl=us] He is the only Swede to have won an individual gold medal in fencing. [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:o3pOLk1WUFEJ:www.fff-faktning.se/MainFillolUK.htm+Johan+Harmenberg&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us] Harmenberg was a member of the Swedish epee team as well; the team placed 5th in the team epee competition.Hall of Fame
Harmenberg, who is
Jewish , was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:MA5TNaifDgoJ:www.jewishsports.net/biopages/JohanHarmenberg.htm+Johan+Harmenberg,&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1]cholarship
Harmenberg co-authored scientific papers entitled "Fencing: Biomedical and Psychological Factors," "Comparison of different tests of fencing performance" (1991), and "Physiological and morphological characteristics of world class fencers" (1990). [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:7eG52gFYxkUJ:www.sportsci.org/encyc/drafts/Fencing.doc+Johan+Harmenberg+epee&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=82&gl=us']
Harmenberg has since had a distinguished career in medical pharmacology, publishing a variety of papers relating to viral immunology [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22author%3AJ.+author%3AHarmenberg%22] . After stints as VP of pharmaceutical development at Medivir [http://newsblaze.com/story/2005120900094300001.pz/topstory.html] , Chief Medical officer at Algeta ASA [http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n9/full/nbt0906-1176.html] , is currently (2008) CEO and Medical Director of Axelar AB [http://www.axelar.se/about.html] in Stockholm, Sweden.
Links
* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:MC-acVsRwGYJ:www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm%3Filkid%3DHARMEJOH01+Johan+Harmenberg,&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3 Olympic record]
* [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#PRA1-PA75,M1 Jewish Sports Legends bio]
* [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/JohanHarmenberg.htm Jewish Sports bio]
* [http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=36 Jews in Sports bio]
* [http://www.fencing.se/2006/templates/nyhet.php?id=5027&categoryID=132 "Johan Harmenberg 50 år"]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
