Allan Jay

Allan Jay medal table
Jay (left) with Giuseppe Delfino (center) and Bruno Habārovs (right), 1960
fencing
United Kingdom (from 1951) Australia (until 1951)
Olympic games
silver	Rome 1960	Sword
silver	Rome 1960	Epee team
World championships
bronze	Rome 1955	Foil team
bronze	Paris 1957	foil
bronze	Paris 1957	Epee team
gold	Budapest 1959	foil
silver	Budapest 1959	Sword
silver	Paris 1965	Epee team
Commonwealth Games
gold	Auckland 1950	Epee team
bronze	Vancouver 1954	foil
gold	Vancouver 1954	Foil team
gold	Vancouver 1954	Epee team
bronze	Cardiff 1958	Sword
gold	Cardiff 1958	Epee team
silver	Perth 1962	foil
gold	Perth 1962	Foil team
gold	Kingston 1966	foil
gold	Vancouver 1954	Foil team

Allan Louis Neville Jay , MBE (born June 30, 1931 in London ) is a retired British fencer .

successes

Allan Jay was born in London and spent most of his childhood in Australia . His father was killed in World War II in 1943 . From 1944 to 1948 he attended school in England, with the family still living in Australia. After 1950 he studied law at the University of Oxford and then worked as a solicitor . At the same time he was a functionary at the World Fencing Federation.

He won several medals at world championships : First he secured three bronze medals, which he won in 1955 in Rome with the foil team and in 1957 in Paris in foil and in the team competition with the epee. In Budapest in 1959 he became the first Briton to be world champion with a foil and vice world champion with a sword. Another silver medal followed in 1965 with the sword team.

He took part in the Olympic Games five times . 1952 in Helsinki he was eliminated in all disciplines in the preliminary round. Four years later in Melbourne he was eliminated with the sword again in the preliminary round, while he just missed a medal with the foil in fourth. In the team competitions he was seventh with the saber, fifth with the foil and fourth again with the epee. The 1960 Olympic Games in Rome were more successful, where Jay won silver in both individual and team competitions with the sword. With the foil team he was fifth, in the individual it was again in the preliminary round. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 there were no further successes, in all four disciplines he finished behind. Also in 1968 in Mexico City he was eliminated from the preliminary round with the foil team, it was his only competition in which he participated.

Throughout his career, Jay has won six gold medals at Maccabiads and seven gold medals at Commonwealth Games . At the 1950 Games in Auckland he played for Australia. In 1952, 1959 and 1960 he was British champion with the sword and in 1963 with the foil. In 1985 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame . He is married and has two children.

Web links

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• Allan Jay in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )