László Berti

László Berti medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic games
gold	Stockholm 1912	Saber crew
bronze	Paris 1924	Foil team
silver	Paris 1924	Saber crew
World championships
silver	Budapest 1926	foil

László Berti (born June 24, 1875 in Budapest ; † June 23, 1952 there ) was a Hungarian fencer .

Career

László Berti just missed a medal win at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm with fourth place in the foil singles. With the saber he was eliminated from the individual competition in the semi-finals, while he made it to the final round undefeated with the team. In this, too, he remained without defeat with the Hungarian team, so that Berti was Olympic champion together with Dezső Földes , Jenő Fuchs , Oszkár Gerde , Ervin Mészáros , Zoltán Schenker , Péter Tóth and Lajos Werkner . At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , he managed to get back into the final round with the saber team, in which Hungary this time had to admit defeat to Italy . Berti won the silver medal with János Garay , Sándor Pósta , József Rády , Zoltán Schenker, László Széchy , Ödön Tersztyánszky and Jenő Uhlyárik . In the foil fencing team competition, he was also in the final round, which he completed with István Lichteneckert , Sándor Pósta, Zoltán Schenker, Ödön Tersztyánszky behind France and Belgium on the bronze medal. Berti was runner-up in his native Budapest in 1926 with the foil.

Web links

• László Berti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• László Berti at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)