Frédéric Pietruszka

Frédéric Pietruszka medal table
Frédéric Pietruszka (2015)
fencing
France
Olympic games
bronze	Montreal 1976	Foil team
gold	Moscow 1980	Foil team
bronze	Los Angeles 1984	Foil team
World championships
bronze	Grenoble 1974	foil
gold	Budapest 1975	Foil team
silver	Hamburg 1978	Foil team
silver	Rome 1982	Foil team

Frédéric Pietruszka (born May 13, 1954 in Villecresnes ) is a former French foil fencer .

successes

Frédéric Pietruszka was in 1975 in Budapest with the team champion , and in 1978 in Hamburg and in 1982 in Rome each second. In 1974 he won the bronze medal in Grenoble . He took part in three Olympic Games : In 1976 , he moved to Montreal with the team in the semi-finals, which were lost to Italy . In the battle for bronze, he then prevailed with the team against the Soviet Union . He finished the individual competition in fifth. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , he and the team reached the unbeaten final, in which the French team took first place against the Soviet Union with just 8: 8 wins and 68:60 hits. Together with Philippe Bonnin , Bruno Boscherie , Pascal Jolyot and Didier Flament , Flament became Olympic champion . He finished the individual competition in eighth place. In 1984 he narrowly missed a medal win in Los Angeles as fourth in an individual. In the team competition he failed again with France in the semifinals to Italy. Pietruszka secured another bronze medal with a 9-3 win against Austria .

From 2005 to 2013 he was President of the Fédération Française d'Escrime . He then became General Secretary of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime .

Web links

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• Frédéric Pietruszka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )