Aladár Gerevich

Aladár Gerevich tombstone

Aladár Gerevich [ ˈɒlɒdaːr ˈɡɛrɛviʧ ] (born March 16, 1910 in Jászberény , † May 14, 1991 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sword fencer.

Gerevich took in 1932 for the first time in the Olympic Games and won with the team of the Hungarian saber his first Olympic gold medal. He repeated this success with the team in 1936 , 1948 , 1952 , 1956 and 1960 . Aladár Gerevich is the only athlete to have won gold in six consecutive Olympic Games. This achievement is even more astonishing when you consider that there were no Olympic Games in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II.

In the individual competition he won bronze in 1936, gold in 1948 and silver in 1952. In 1952 he also won bronze with the foil team. Gerevich was nine times world champion ( 1951 and 1955 in singles) and five times European champion (1935 in singles).

Aladár Gerevich was married to Erna Bogen , who won bronze with the foil in 1932. Both son Pál Gerevich , two bronze medalists in 1972 and 1980 with the saber team, were born on August 10, 1948, on that day Aladár Gerevich stood with the team in London and played the preliminary round.

The list of Hungarian successes in saber fencing is long. Between 1908 and 1964 Hungary won the individual competition with the only exception in 1920 when Hungary was not allowed to participate. Among all these Olympic champions, Aladár Gerevich is the most successful in the history of the Olympic Games with seven gold medals .

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Individual evidence

^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 40
↑ Note: At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, Armin Zöggeler became the first athlete to win his sixth individual medal in the same discipline at six consecutive Olympic Games (from 1994 to 2014 two golds, one silver, three bronze). The Romanian rower Elisabeta Lipă won eight individual medals in different disciplines at six consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2004: single, double scull, double scull and eighth.

personal data
SURNAME	Gerevich, Aladár
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jászberény
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1991
Place of death	Budapest

[1] "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 40

[2] Note: At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, Armin Zöggeler became the first athlete to win his sixth individual medal in the same discipline at six consecutive Olympic Games (from 1994 to 2014 two golds, one silver, three bronze). The Romanian rower Elisabeta Lipă won eight individual medals in different disciplines at six consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2004: single, double scull, double scull and eighth.