Arie de Jong (fencer)

This article is about the Dutch fencer. For the reformer see Arie de Jong .

Arie de Jong medal table
fencing
Netherlands
Olympic games
bronze	1912 Stockholm	Sword (team)
bronze	1912 Stockholm	Saber (crew)
bronze	1920 Antwerp	Saber (single)
bronze	1920 Antwerp	Saber (crew)
bronze	1924 Paris	Saber (crew)
World and European championships
gold	1922 Ostend	Saber (single)
gold	1923 The Hague	Saber (single)
silver	1923 The Hague	Sword (single)
Military World Championships
gold	1936	Sword (single)

Adrianus Egbert Willem "Arie" de Jong (born June 21, 1882 in Plantungan , Sulawesi Tengah , Dutch East Indies , † December 23, 1966 in The Hague ) was a Dutch fencer . He participated in six Olympic Games (including the 1906 Intermediate Games ). De Jong was most successful in saber fencing , where he won four of his five Olympic bronze medals and was world champion twice. The Dutchman once won an Olympic bronze with the sword , a vice world championship and the last title of his career, the military world championship in 1936.

Life

Arie de Jong was born on the island of Sulawesi in what is now Indonesia . Between 1910 and 1928 he won 18 Dutch championship titles in fencing and is a record holder to this day. De Jong won nine times in epee fencing (1910, 1912, 1920, 1923–1928), six times with the saber (1910–1913, 1923, 1924) and three times in foil fencing (1911, 1924, 1925).

In 1906 de Jong took part in the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens , where his best result was fifth place with the epee team, at the 1908 Games in London de Jong again reached fifth place with the saber team. Four years later, the Dutchman won two bronze medals in the team competitions in the epee and saber disciplines at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm . The saber medal with the team was also able to de Jong in 1920 in Antwerp, defend, and he also won bronze in individual competition with the saber. At the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 , the Dutch saber team won the bronze medal, as they did in 1912 and 1920, the fifth and final bronze medal for Arie de Jong. In the individual competition of the saber competition in 1924, de Jong was on the gold course when a spectator's chair collapsed in the fight against the Hungarian Sándor Pósta . The jury then overlooked the decisive hit of the Dutchman, who lost his concentration and the fight. In the end, he finished fifth. In 1928 de Jong took part in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam for the last time . The fifth places in the sword competition and the saber competition of the teams remained the best results.

De Jong was also European champion in saber fencing at the International Fencing Championships in 1922 and 1923 , and he also won silver in the sword competition in 1923; the competitions also represented the world championship, so de Jong is led as a double world champion. After his last Olympic Games in 1928, the Dutchman seldom participated in international competitions, but in 1936 de Jong became military world champion in epee fencing .

After retiring from the Dutch army with the rank of major in the artillery , de Jong ran the Indonesian restaurant Tampat Senang in The Hague . He died in the city of South Holland in 1966 at the age of 84. Almost 27 years after his death, The Hague named the Arie de Jongstraat after the fencer.

Web links

• Arie de Jong in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nederlandse Kampioenen Schermen. (PDF; 524 kB) (No longer available online.) In: kardolus.org. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved April 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Fencing - World Championships (Saber - Men): Saber Men Singles , in: sport-komplett.de , accessed on April 10, 2014.
3. ↑ Fencing - World Championships (men - épée): épée men singles , in: sport-komplett.de , accessed on April 10, 2014.
4. ↑ An Olympic vlam voor het Kurhaus. (No longer available online.) In: Den Haag Centraal. July 27, 2012, p. 6 , archived from the original on December 27, 2014 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Straatnaamgeving Monsterseweg eo (PDF; 57 kB) (No longer available online.) In: denhaag.nl. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved April 10, 2014 .