Jeremy Fox
Jeremy "Jim" Robert Fox (born September 19, 1941 in Pewsey , Wiltshire ) is a former British modern pentathlon who was Olympic champion in the team championship in 1976.
Life
Fox first took part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 ; he finished 29th in the individual ranking and was ninth with the team. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he reached eighth place in both the individual and team rankings. The sergeant with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers announced his departure from competitive sports after the 1968 Games, but was persuaded by his trainer, Ron Bright, to continue.
At the 1972 Olympic Games , he was the best runner in the field and came fourth in the individual ranking and thus the best Olympic placement of a British pentathlon to date; with the team he finished ninth in Munich. In 1975 at the World Cup in Mexico City, Fox won his first international medal, he was third with 500 points behind the Soviet world champion Pawel Lednjow , but only nine points behind the second-placed Hungarian Tamás Kancsal .
In 1976 in Montreal there was a scandal in the fencing competition in the modern pentathlon. During the skirmish between the Soviet team Olympic champion of 1972 Borys Onyshchenko and the Briton Adrian Parker , Fox observed that the hit indicator was lit even though the Ukrainian hadn't scored. Fox jumped onto the planche, held Onyshchenko's sword, and asked for a technical examination. This revealed that Onyshchenko had manipulated his weapon with the help of a wire so that he could trigger the hit display at any time. Onyshchenko was banned for life and the Soviet team had burst. In the end, Adrian Parker finished fifth in the individual ranking, Danny Nightingale was tenth and Jim Fox was 15th. Together, the three British won the team decision ahead of the Czechoslovaks and the Hungarians.
After ten British championship titles, four Olympic appearances and one Olympic victory, Fox ended his career in 1976. For his sporting merits, Fox was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire .
literature
- Ian Buchanan: British Olympians . Enfield 1991. ISBN 0-85112-952-8
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kluge, p. 629
1952: Benedek , Kovácsi , Szondy ( HUN ) | 1956: Derjuhin , Novikov , Tarasov ( URS ) | 1960: Balczó , Nagy , Németh ( HUN ) | 1964: Minejew , Mokejew , Novikow ( URS ) | 1968: Balczó , Móna , Török ( HUN ) | 1972: Onyschtschenko , Lednjow , Schmeljow ( URS ) | 1976: Fox , Nightingale , Parker ( GBR ) | 1980: Lednjow , Lipejew , Starostin ( URS ) | 1984: Cristofori , Masala , Massullo ( ITA ) | 1988: Fábián , Martinek , Mizsér ( HUN ) | 1992: Czyżowicz , Goździak , Skrzypaszek ( POL )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fox, Jeremy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fox, Jeremy Robert (full name); Fox, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Olympic champion in modern pentathlon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pewsey , Wiltshire |