Robert Leroux

Robert Leroux medal table
fencing
France
Olympic games
bronze	Atlanta 1996	Epee team
World championships
silver	Budapest 1991	Epee team
silver	Essen 1993	Epee team
gold	Athens 1994	Epee team
silver	The Hague 1995	Sword
silver	The Hague 1995	Epee team
bronze	Cape Town 1997	Sword

Robert Leroux (born August 22, 1967 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a former French sword fencer .

successes

Robert Leroux was with the team in 1994 in Athens champion and 1991 in Budapest , 1993 in Essen and 1995 in The Hague Vice World Champion. In the individual he won silver in The Hague in 1995 and bronze in Cape Town in 1997 . He took part in the Olympic Games twice: in 1992 in Barcelona he just missed winning a medal when he finished fourth with the team. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , the French team prevailed after a semi-final defeat against Russia , in the battle for third place against Germany with 45:42, so that Leroux won the bronze medal together with Jean-Michel Henry and Éric Srecki . After a defeat in the third round against Kaido Kaaberma , he finished the individual competition in twelfth place.

In 2006 he married Valérie Barlois , who also won Olympic medals in epee fencing in 1996.

Web links

• Robert Leroux in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )