Jéhan Buhan

Jéhan Marie Eric Joseph Buhan (born April 5, 1912 in Bordeaux ; † September 14, 1999 ibid) was a French foil fencer who won three Olympic gold medals and three world championship titles.

Buhan won the silver medal at the fencing world championships in 1938 with the French foil team. After the interruption caused by the Second World War, the first post-war World Cup took place in Lisbon in 1947 . Buhan won two gold medals: together with André Bonin , René Bougnol , Christian d'Oriola and Adrien Rommel he won the foil team competition and together with Édouard Artigas , Marcel Desprets , Henri Guérin , Henri Lepage and Michel Pécheux he won the Degen team competition .

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , Buhan only competed with the foil. The team with André Bonin, René Bougnol, Jehan Buhan, Jacques Lataste , Christian d'Oriola and Adrien Rommel won the gold medal ahead of the Italians, in the individual Buhan won ahead of Christian d'Oriola.

In 1949 Buhan won silver at the World Cup with the foil team. The following year, at the World Championships in Monte Carlo, Buhan won three silver medals. With both the foil team and the epee team he was defeated by the Italian team, and in the foil singles he lost to the Italian Renzo Nostini . In 1951 in Stockholm he won together with René Bougnol, Christian d'Oriola, Jacques Lataste, Claude Netter and Adrien Rommel in the foil team competition, in the individual competition he received bronze as the best French behind the Italians Manlio Di Rosa and Edoardo Mangiarotti .

At the age of 40, Buhan played his last major tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He finished fifth in the individual ranking. Together with Jacques Lataste, Claude Netter, Jacques Noël , Christian d'Oriola and Adrien Rommel, he won the team competition and won his third Olympic gold medal.

Web links

• Jéhan Buhan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fencing World Championships Foil
• World fencing championships epee