Daniel Revenu

Daniel Jean Claude Ernest Revenu (born December 5, 1942 in Issoudun ) is a former French fencer . He won a gold medal and five bronze medals with the foil at the Olympic Games from 1964 to 1976 .

Athletic career

Daniel Revenu won his first international medal at the World Fencing Championships in 1963 , when he won bronze in team competition with Guy Barrabino , Jacky Courtillat , Jean-Claude Magnan and Pierre Rodocanachi . In 1964 he reached third place in the individual at the Olympic Games in Tokyo behind the Poles Egon Franke and Jean-Claude Magnan. The team with Courtillat, Magnan, Christian Noël , Revenu and Rodocanachi won bronze. In 1965 the World Fencing Championships took place in Paris. In front of a home crowd Magnan won gold in the individual competition ahead of Revenu. The team from the previous year won the bronze medal.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Romanian Ion Drîmbă won the foil singles . Behind them the Hungarian Jenő Kamuti , Daniel Revenu and Christian Noël had to jump off with three wins each in the finals of the six best fencers. Kamuti won the silver medal in the jump-off, Revenu received bronze and Noël took fourth place. The team with Gilles Berolatti , Jacques Dimont , Jean-Claude Magnan, Christian Noël and Daniel Revenu defeated the Soviet team in the final and won team gold again after sixteen years with the foil.

In 1969 and 1970 the Soviet team won gold at the World Championships, the French were left empty handed. At the Fencing World Championships in Vienna in 1971 , the team with Bruno Boscherie , Jean-Claude Magnan, Christian Noël, Daniel Revenu and Bernard Talvard won . In 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich , Revenu was eliminated in the semi-finals of the individual competition. The team with Gilles Berolatti, Jean-Claude Magnan, Christian Noël, Daniel Revenu and Bernard Talvard won the bronze medal.

In 1974 the fencing world championships took place in France again. Didier Flament , Christian Noël, Daniel Revenu and Bernard Talvard won the bronze medal in the team competition in Grenoble . In 1975 in Budapest the French were even more successful. Christian Noël, Frédéric Pietruszka , Daniel Revenu and Bernard Talvard won team gold before the Soviet Union. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the team with Didier Flament, Christian Noël, Frédéric Pietruszka, Daniel Revenu and Bernard Talvard won the bronze medal.

Web links

• Daniel Revenu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Foil world championships on sport-komplett.de