Imre Gedővári

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Imre Gedővári (born July 1, 1951 in Budapest ; † May 22, 2014 ) was a Hungarian fencer who became Olympic champion in saber fencing with the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , as well as world fencing champion three times with the saber team and once European fencing champion.

Life

Gedővári was active as a fencer for the clubs Újpesti Dózsa and Vasas SC and won ten Hungarian championship titles with them.

He began his international career as a saber fencer in the mid-1970s. At the Fencing World Championships in Budapest in 1975 he won the silver medal with the saber team, which also included Pál Gerevich , Péter Marót and Tamás Kovács . At the fencing world championships in Buenos Aires in 1977 he won the bronze medal with his teammates Pál Gerevich, Ferenc Hammang and Tamás Kovács.

At the fencing world championships in Hamburg in 1978 Gedővári won the gold medal for the first time with the saber team, which included Pál Gerevich, Ferenc Hammang, Zoltán Nagyházi and György Nébald . In 1978 he was voted fencer of the year in Hungary for the first time.

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , he won both a bronze medal in the individual saber competition after Viktor Krowopuskow and Mikhail Burzew from the Soviet Union and a bronze medal in the team competition together with Pál Gerevich, Ferenc Hammang, György Nébald and Rudolf Nébald .

Gedővári won silver in the individual ranking at the fencing world championships in Clermont-Ferrand in 1981 after Dariusz Wódke from Poland and together with the saber team with György Nébald, Rudolf Nébald and Pál Gerevich also his second gold medal at the fencing world championships. At the same time he won the gold medal at the first European fencing championships in Foggia in 1981 and was the first European champion in saber fencing .

At the ensuing World Fencing Championships in Rome in 1982 he won another bronze medal in the individual competition after Wiktor Krowopuskow and Andrei Alschan and became fencing world champion for the third time with the saber team also consisting of Pál Gerevich, György Nébald, Zoltán Nagyházi and Imre Bujdosó . He won another silver medal in the saber team competition together with György Nébald, Imre Abay , Imre Bujdosó and György Varga at the World Fencing Championships in 1983 in Vienna . In 1984 he was elected Fencer of the Year in Hungary for the second time.

The culmination of his international career came at the 1988 Summer Olympics , when he won the gold medal in saber fencing with the team that included Imre Bujdosó, László Csongrádi , György Nébald and Bence Szabó , and became Olympic champion.

After finishing his active career, Gedővári became General Secretary of the Hungarian Fencing Association MVSZ (Magyar Vívó Szövetség) in January 1989 and held this position until the summer of 1991. In addition, between February 1991 and December 1996 he was President of the Sports Club Újpesti Torna Egylet .

Gedővári died in May 2014 at the age of 62 after a long and serious illness.

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SURNAME Gedővári, Imre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian saber fencer and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2014