Csaba Fenyvesi

Csaba Fenyvesi (born April 14, 1943 in Budapest ; † November 3, 2015 ) was a Hungarian sword fencer and three-time Olympic champion .

Csaba Fenyvesi won his first international medal at the 1967 World Cup , when he and the Hungarian epee team won the bronze medal behind the Soviet and French teams. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Csaba Fenyvesi, Győző Kulcsár , Pál Nagy , Zoltán Nemere and Pál Schmitt won the final against the Soviet team, with Kulcsár and Nemere having won team gold in 1964 .

After silver in the 1969 World Cup behind the Soviet team, the Hungarians won the World Cup final against the Poles in 1970 with Sándor Erdős , Fenyvesi, Kulcsár, Nemere and Schmitt . In the individual decision Fenyvesi won the bronze medal, it should remain his only individual medal at world championships. After the Hungarians defended their world championship title in 1971 , they also won the final at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, with Erdős, Fenyvesi, Kulcsár, István Osztrics and Schmitt winning 8: 4 against the Swiss epee fencers. In the final round in the epee singles Fenyvesi had clearly won his first four battles, against the French Jacques Ladègaillerie in the end a draw for an Olympic victory was enough for him, the French won silver ahead of Kulcsár. Fenyvesi also competed with the Hungarian foil team , which narrowly lost to the French in the battle for the bronze medal.

At the 1973 World Cup, the Hungarian epee team lost for the first time since 1969 at the season's highlight, in the final they were defeated by the team from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1974 Fenyvesi was not part of the Hungarian team, but in 1975 he won the bronze medal with the team at the World Cup . At the Olympic Games in 1976 Fenyvesi reached the battle for bronze with the epee team, but lost there against the Swiss. In the individual and with the foil team, he finished seventh with others. The dentist, who has a doctorate in dentistry, won his last major title at the 1978 World Cup , when he won team gold again with Kulcsár and Osztrics as well as Ernő Kolczonay and Jenő Pap .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Csaba Fenyvesi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the World Fencing Championships (men's sword) from sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

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