Edgar Seligman
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| silver | Athens 1906 | Epee team |
| silver | London 1908 | Epee team |
| silver | Stockholm 1912 | Epee team |
Edgar Isaac Seligman (born April 14, 1867 in San Francisco , United States , † September 27, 1958 in London ) was a British fencer .
successes
Edgar Seligman, originally born in the United States, became a British citizen after the family moved to the United Kingdom. He fought in the Second Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry .
Seligman took part in fencing at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games and in four Olympic Games : in 1906 he was eliminated from the preliminary round with the foil and the épée, while he and Cosmo Duff Gordon , William Grenfell and Charles Newton Robinson in the team competition with the épée silver won. At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , he and Edgar Amphlett , Leaf Daniell , Cecil Haig , Martin Holt and Robert Montgomerie also won the silver medal in the team competition with the sword. In the individual competition, however, he was eliminated in the first round. In 1912 he repeated the team success in Stockholm with Edgar Amphlett, John Blake , Percival May Davson , Arthur Everitt , Cecil Haig, Martin Holt and Robert Montgomerie by winning the silver medal in the sword competition. In the individual he took sixth place with both the foil and the sword. In 1920 he retired in Antwerp in the individual competitions with the foil in the preliminary round, while he was fifth with the foil team and seventh with the epee team. In 1924 he did not get past the preliminary round with the foil team in Paris , he did not finish the individual competitions with the foil and the saber. At his first games in 1906 Seligman was 39 years old, in 1924 he was 57. With the foil Seligman was British champion in 1906 and 1907, the sword title he won in 1904 and 1906, with the saber he won the championship in 1923 and 1924.
In 1928 in Amsterdam and in 1932 in Los Angeles Seligman took part in the art competitions in painting. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Fine Art Society in London. His brother Herbert Seligman was a Brigadier General in the British Armed Forces.
Web links
- Edgar Seligman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Seligman, Edgar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seligman, Edgar Isaac (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1958 |
| Place of death | London , UK |