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{{Short description|Soviet fencer (born 1953)}}
{{Infobox fencer
| name           = Alexandr Romankov
| image          = Aleksandr Romankov St Maur 2015 ind t142346.jpg
| caption        = Romankov in 2015
| birth_name     = 
| full_name      = Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov
| nickname       = 
| nationality    = 
| residence      = 
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1953|11|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place    = [[Korsakov (town)|Korsakov]], [[Sakhalin Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[USSR]]
| death_date     = 
| death_place    = 
| country        = {{URS}}
| weapon         = [[foil (fencing)|foil]]
| hand           = left-handed
| height         = 1.78 m
| weight         = 72 kg
| medaltemplates =
{{Medal|Country | {{URS}} }}
{{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Fencing (sport)|fencing]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|W|1|(0 individual)}}
{{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}}
{{Medal|3rd|2|(2 individual)}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[World Fencing Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|W|10|(5 individual)}}
{{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}}
{{Medal|3rd|3|(0 individual)}}
}}

'''Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov''' ({{langx|be|Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў|Alyaksandr Anatolyevich Ramankow}}; {{langx|ru|Александр Анатольевич Романьков|Aleksandr Anatolyevich Romankov}}) is a former [[Belarus|Belarusian]] [[fencing|fencer]] from the former [[Soviet Union]], who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of [[Korsakov (town)|Korsakov]] on the island of [[Sakhalin]] (just north of [[Japan]]). He trained at [[Dynamo (sports society)|Dynamo]] in [[Minsk]] and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three [[Olympic Games]] that he competed in between [[Fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976]] and [[Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988]] ) .<ref name="databaseolympics">{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01 |title=Alexandr Romankov |access-date=2011-04-11 |website=databaseOlympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815221811/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01 |archive-date=2011-08-15 }}</ref><ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417200019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Alexandr Romankov |access-date=2011-04-11}}</ref>

==Achievements==
;[[Fencing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
*[[File:Gold medal.svg|20 px]] Foil team (1988)
*[[File:Silver medal.svg|20 px]] Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
*[[File:Bronze medal.svg|20 px]] Foil individual (1980, 1988)

;[[Fencing World Cup]]
* [[File:Simple gold cup.svg|20px]] Foil (1974, 1976)
* A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).<ref name=CHARITY>{{cite web|url=http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html|title=Alexander Romankov|publisher=fencing-future.com|access-date=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813082244/http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html|archive-date=13 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* A seventeen-time Champion of the [[USSR]].<ref name=CHARITY/>

==Honours==
* Awarded the title of Chevallier [[Robert Feyerick|Feyerick]] by the [[FIE]].<ref name=CHARITY/>
* Has coached the National teams of [[Australia]], [[Belarus]], and [[Korea]].<ref name=CHARITY/>
* Featured in the 2004 [[Guinness Book of World Records]].<ref name=CHARITY/>
* Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.<ref name=CHARITY/>
* Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".<ref name=CHARITY/>

==See also==
*[[World Fencing Championships#Multiple medallist|Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{EFC|00728836}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160927033507/http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/alexandr-romankov/results archive])
* {{Olympics.com profile|aleksandr-romankov|Aleksandr Romankov}}

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{{World Champions in Men's Foil}}

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[[Category:1953 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Soviet male fencers]]
[[Category:Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in fencing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Summer World University Games medalists in fencing]]
[[Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade]]
[[Category:Left-handed fencers]]