Aladár Gerevich
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Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever".[1] He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games.[2]
Biography
Gerevich was the first athlete to win the same Olympic event six times (despite two Games cancelled because of the Second World War) with a record 28-year gap between first and last medals.[3] (Both records were broken by Isabell Werth, who won seven team dressage golds between 1992 and 2024.[4])
Gerevich's wife, Erna Bogen (also known as Erna Bogathy), his son, Pál Gerevich, and his father-in-law, Albert Bogen (a silver medalist in team sabre for Austria at the 1912 Summer Olympics), all won Olympic medals in fencing.[5]
In the Hungarian Olympic trials for the 1960 Rome Olympics, the fencing committee told Gerevich that he was too old to compete. He silenced them by challenging the entire sabre team to individual matches and winning every match.[3] He missed the finals of the 1960 Olympic individual sabre event, and a possible individual gold medal, by a single touch. After retiring, he coached fencing at the Vasas Sports Club in Budapest, where he died aged 81.[5] Asteroid 228893 Gerevich, discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky and Brigitta Sipőcz at Piszkéstető Station in 2003, was named in his memory.[6] The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 (M.P.C. 86716Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[7]
See also
- List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
- List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists
References
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External links
- www.olimpic.org: Aladár Gerevich with photos
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- 1910 births
- 1991 deaths
- Sportspeople from Jászberény
- Hungarian male sabre fencers
- Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Recipients of the Olympic Order
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
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- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery
- Hungarian male foil fencers
- 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen