Paul Anspach

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Paul Anspach at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Paul Anspach (born April 1, 1882 in Burcht , † August 28, 1981 in Brussels ) was a Belgian fencer ( sword and foil ) and multiple medalist at the Olympic Games . He also played ice hockey in the 1910s .

ice Hockey

Anspach played for the Belgian national team at the European ice hockey championship in 1911 . A year later, he joined the French national team ( Club des Patineurs de Paris ) at the LIHG championship in 1912 , where foreign players were allowed.

At club level, he played for the Brussels IHC in the Belgian championship .

fencing

  • At the Summer Olympics in London in 1908 , he came in 5th place with two victories in the individual epee competition, ex-aequo with the Dutchman Alfred Labouchère and the British Cecil Haig. In the epee team competition he reached (together with Désiré Beaurain, Fernand Bosmans, Fernand de Montigny, Ferdinand Feyerick, Francis Rom and Victor Willems) the bronze medal, where he himself won 10 of his 15 fights.
  • At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, he won the gold medal in the epee singles with six wins, as well as with the Belgian epee team (apart from Paul Anspach these were his brother Henri Anspach, Fernand de Montigny, Jacques Ochs , Gaston Salmon , Victor Willems and Robert Hennet). In his seven own fights he won six times. In individual foil fencing he reached the semi-finals, but only came 12th in the overall ranking.
  • After the Olympic Games did not take place in 1916 due to the First World War, he and his epee team (besides him, Léon Tom, Ernest Gevers, Felix Goblet d'Aviella, Maurice de Wee, Fernand de Montgny, Joseph) won the next Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 de Craecker, Victor Boin and Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu) the silver medal
  • He also won the silver medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris with his team (apart from Anspach, they included Fernand de Montigny, Joseph de Craecker, Ernest Gevers, Léon Tom and Charles Delporte). In the individual epee competition he reached the finals, but ultimately came in 9th place.

Functions in fencing, honor

From 1909 to 1928 Anspach was the captain of the Belgian national epee team.

From 1933 to 1948 he was President of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (International Fencing Association), of which he was previously Secretary General. During the Second World War, however, the FIE's activities ceased after the Gestapo confiscated its documents (which later never reappeared). Paul Anspach was of Jewish faith.

In 1976, Anspach received the IOC's Olympic silver medal.

His brother Henri Anspach was also a fencer and was part of the gold winning team at the 1912 Olympic Games.

swell

  • Paul Taylor: Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists , Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 2004, ISBN 1-903900-87-5 , p. 223

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personal data
SURNAME Anspach, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian fencer and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Fear
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1981
Place of death Brussels