Mario Valota

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bronze Helsinki 1952 Epee team
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bronze Brussels 1953 Epee team

Mario Valota (born February 8, 1918 , † September 30, 2000 ) was a Swiss sword fencer .

successes

Mario Valota took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and won the bronze medal in the team competition. In addition to him, the team included Paul Barth , Paul Meister , Otto Rüfenacht , Willy Fitting and Oswald Zappelli . At the 1953 World Championships in Brussels he also won bronze with the Swiss team.

In 1959 the Swiss Fencing Association awarded him the Challenge Eugène Empeyta .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Challenge Eugène Empeyta. In: swiss-fencing.ch. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .