Tibor Berczelly

Tibor Berczelly medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1936 Berlin	Saber, crew
gold	1948 London	Saber, crew
gold	1952 Helsinki	Saber, crew
bronze	1952 Helsinki	Saber, single
bronze	1952 Helsinki	Foil, team

Tibor Berczelly (born January 3, 1912 in Budapest , Hungary , † October 15, 1990 ibid) was a Hungarian saber fencer and three-time Olympic champion .

In 1936 he took part with the Hungarian saber team at the Olympic Games in Berlin and won the gold medal there. This success should be in 1948 in London and 1952 in the Games of Helsinki repeat two more times. In Helsinki he was able to win a medal in an individual competition with the saber as third place. He also took part in the team competition with the foil and won another bronze medal there.

At the 1st World Fencing Championships in Paris in 1937 he was world champion with the saber with the Hungarian team. In the individual competition he finished second. At the fencing world championships in Luxembourg in 1954 , he won the bronze medal with the saber.

Berczelly was a member of the Hungarian sports club Csepel SC .

Web links

• Tibor Berczelly in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )