- Mark Midler
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Mark Midler Personal information Born 24 September 1931
Moscow, Soviet UnionSport Sport Fencing Medal recordMens' fencing[1] Competitor for the 
Soviet UnionGold 1960 Rome Team foil Gold 1964 Tokyo Team foil Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; born September 24, 1931, in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.[2]
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Fencing career
Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.[3] He won two Olympic gold medals.
In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.[4]
World Championships
Midler captured World Championship titles in the Foil event four consecutive years: 1959–62. He was also a member of Soviet Foil teams that won World Team Championships five times: in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966. In 1967, Midler’s Soviet Foil team won a silver medal. Midler won a World Championships silver medal in Individual Foil in 1957, and Individual bronze medals in 1959 and 1961.[2]
Olympics
Midler was named captain for the 1960 Olympic Games. Captain Midler's team won a gold medal in Team Foil at the Rome Olympics.
Four years later, at the Tokyo Games—again as captain—his Soviet team won their second consecutive Team Foil gold medal.
Miscellaneous
He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.[4]
Coaching career
Midler has served through the years as one of the old Soviet Union’s and Russia’s Olympic coaches.
Hall of Fame
Midler, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Mark Midler". databaseolympics.com. http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=MIDLEMAR01. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ "Mark Midler Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/mark-midler-1.html. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
- ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979) (in Russian). All about Olympic Games. (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 564.
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Categories:- 1931 births
- Living people
- Soviet fencers
- Jewish fencers
- Russian Jews
- Olympic fencers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Burevestnik athletes
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