Léon Tom
| Léon Tom medal table |
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 Belgium
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 Olympic games
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| silver | Antwerp 1920 | Epee team |
| silver | Paris 1924 | Epee team |
 World championships
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| bronze | Paris 1922 | Sword |
| bronze | Ostend 1926 | Sword |
| gold | Liege 1930 | Epee team |
Léon Tom (born October 25, 1888 in Antwerp ; † unknown) was a Belgian fencer and bobsledder .
successes
Léon Tom won individual bronze medals at world championships in Paris in 1922 and in Ostend in 1926 , before becoming world champion with the team in Liège in 1930 .
He took part in the Olympic Games five times : in 1912 he was eliminated in Stockholm with the foil in the preliminary round, with the sword he finished seventh and reached fifth place with the saber team. In 1920 he reached the final round with the Degen team in Antwerp , in which they only had to admit defeat to Italy . Together with Paul Anspach , Victor Boin , Joseph De Craecker , Maurice de Wée , Félix Goblet d'Alviella , Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu , Fernand de Montigny and Ernest Gevers , he won the silver medal. In the individual competition with the sword, however, he was eliminated in the first round. This time he only competed with the foil in the team competition, which he finished in sixth place. In the saber competition with the team he just missed another medal win in fourth place, he finished the individual in sixth. At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, he repeated the success of 1920 in the team competition with the sword, when he again finished second behind France this time with the Belgian team . In addition to Paul Anspach, Joseph De Craecker, Charles Delporte , Fernand de Montigny and Ernest Gevers, Tom won another silver medal. He finished the individual in seventh place, with the saber team he did not get beyond the quarter-finals. In 1928 he took part in the two epee competitions in Amsterdam and again narrowly missed the podium in fourth place. In the same year Tom also took part in the winter games in St. Moritz as a team member in the five-man bobsleigh. The Belgian bobsleigh finished sixth in the end.
Tom was an officer in the Belgian army. Because of his Jewish beliefs, he fled Belgium in 1940, first to Portugal, and then crossed over to the United States , where he worked as a diamond dealer in Manhattan .
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| SURNAME | Tom, Léon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian fencer and bobsledder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |