Wladyslaw Segda

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Władysław Segda medal table
Adam Papée with Władysław Segda (right, 1934)
Adam Papée with Władysław Segda (right, 1934)

fencing

Poland 1928Second Polish Republic Poland
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Amsterdam 1928 Saber crew
bronze Los Angeles 1932 Saber crew
fencing World championships
bronze Liege 1930 Saber crew
bronze Warsaw 1934 Saber crew

Władysław Hipolit Segda (born May 23, 1895 in Przemyśl , † 1994 in Edinburgh ) was a Polish fencer .

Władysław Segda was an officer in the Polish Army and started as a saber fencer at the Olympic Games in 1928 , 1932 and 1936 . In 1928 in Amsterdam he won bronze with the team ( Adam Papée , Tadeusz Friedrich , Kazimierz Laskowski , Aleksander Małecki and Jerzy Zabielski ), also in Los Angeles in 1932 (with Friedrich, Papée, Leszek Lubicz-Nycz , Władysław Dobrowolski and Marian Suski ).

In World War II served Major Segda as a Polish soldier in Scotland . There he stayed after the war and taught fencing at the University of Edinburgh and in Glasgow .

His granddaughter is the well-known Polish actress Dorota Segda .

Web links

Commons : Władysław Segda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Short History of Modern Fencing in Scotland. scottish-fencing.com, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  2. ^ Dorota Segda. Kobieta o wielu obliczach. Gazeta Krakowska, July 20, 2013, accessed April 26, 2014 (Polish).