- Dezső Földes
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The native form of this personal name is Földes Dezső. This article uses the Western name order.
Olympic medal record Competitor for Hungary Men's Fencing Gold London 1908 Team sabre Gold Stockholm 1912 Team sabre The title of this article contains the characters ő and ö. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.
Dr. Dezső Földes (December 30, 1880, in Miskolc, Hungary – March 27, 1950)[2] was a Hungarian saber fencer.[3][4] He was Jewish.[1]
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Olympics
Földes, won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.[5]
Later life
Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950.
See also
References
External links
- Olympic record
- Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1574882848. http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA81&lpg=RA1-PA81&dq=dezs%C3%B6+f%C3%B6ldes&source=web&ots=37b0EtdD04&sig=7gd0JH4xL6FE5iUUY9e4vNdMPD8#PRA1-PA54,M1.
- Jews in Sports bio
- List of Jewish Olympic Medalists
- Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime. The Complete Book of the Olympics (2008 ed.). Great Britain: Aurum Press. p. 616. ISBN 978-1-84513-330-6.
Categories:- 1880 births
- 1950 deaths
- 19th-century Hungarian people
- 20th-century Hungarian people
- Jewish fencers
- Hungarian fencers
- Olympic fencers of Hungary
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Hungarian Jews
- People from Miskolc
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian fencing biography stubs
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