Adam Papée

Adam Papée medal table
Adam Papée with Władysław Segda (left, 1934)
fencing
Poland
Olympic games
bronze	Amsterdam 1928	Saber crew
bronze	Los Angeles 1932	Saber crew
World championships
bronze	Liege 1930	Saber crew

Adam Stanisław Papée (born July 21, 1895 in Lwów , Austria-Hungary , † March 6, 1990 in Bydgoszcz ) was a Polish saber fencer and official.

Life

Adam Papée won bronze with the team at the World Championships in Liège in 1930 . He took part in the Olympic Games four times . In 1924 he retired with the Saber team in the preliminary round, while in 1928 he reached the final round in Amsterdam with the Polish team, which he finished in third place behind Italy and Hungary . Together with Kazimierz Laskowski , Aleksander Małecki , Tadeusz Friedrich , Władysław Segda and Jerzy Zabielski , he received the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 , he moved with the team one more time in the final round, in which Poland again took third place behind Italy and Hungary. In addition to Papée, Władysław Dobrowolski , Leszek Lubicz , Tadeusz Friedrich, Władysław Segda and Marian Suski won bronze. His only single Olympic participation ended in the semi-finals. Four years later , in fourth place with the team in Berlin, he just missed another medal win. He became Polish champion in 1926, 1927, 1929 and 1932.

Papée was a founding member of the Polish Fencing Association and its president from 1926 to 1930. He was also active as a competition judge from 1923 to 1973 at the national level and from 1930 to 1960 at the international level. In 1914 he joined the Polish Legions at the beginning of the First World War . He was wounded in the course of the war and twice received the Cross of Valor, the Krzyż Walecznych . After the war Papée studied economics and law at the Jagiellonian University , where he also received his doctorate . During the German occupation of Poland in 1944 he and two of his daughters took part in the Warsaw Uprising . After the end of the war he actively worked on the reconstruction of the sports structures in Poland and began to work as a fencing trainer in addition to his official activities. Papée is a holder of the Hungarian Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

Web links

Commons : Adam Papée  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Adam Papée in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Adam Papée at Polski Komitet Olimpijski (Polish)