Alexandr Romankov
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Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at 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 1976 and 1988 ) .[1][2]
Achievements
- File:Gold medal.svg Foil team (1988)
- File:Silver medal.svg Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
- File:Bronze medal.svg Foil individual (1980, 1988)
- File:Simple gold cup.svg Foil (1974, 1976)
- A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).[3]
- A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.[3]
Honours
- Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.[3]
- Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.[3]
- Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.[3]
- Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.[3]
- Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".[3]
See also
References
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External links
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Categories:
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- 1953 births
- Living people
- Soviet male fencers
- Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade
- Left-handed fencers