Wassyl Stankowytsch

Wassyl Stankowytsch medal table
Wassyl Stankowytsch (1972)
fencing
Soviet Union
Olympic games
silver	Mexico City 1968	Foil team
silver	Munich 1972	Foil team
World championships
silver	Havana 1969	foil
gold	Havana 1969	Foil team
gold	Ankara 1970	Foil team
gold	Vienna 1971	foil
bronze	Vienna 1971	Foil team
gold	Gothenburg 1973	Foil team
gold	Grenoble 1974	Foil team

Wassyl Wassyljowytsch Stankowytsch ( Ukrainian Василь Васильович Станкович ; born April 25, 1946 in Irschawa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet foil fencer .

successes

Wassyl Stankowytsch became the individual world champion in Vienna in 1971 , after having finished second in Havana in 1969 . With the team he won the title in Havana in 1969, in Ankara in 1970 , in Gothenburg in 1973 and in Grenoble in 1974 . He took part in the Olympic Games three times : In 1968 he and the team in Mexico City reached the gold medal, unbeaten, in which France beat the Soviet team 9: 6. In addition to Juri Scharow , German Sweschnikow , Juri Sissikin and Viktor Putjatin , Stankowytsch received the silver medal. He finished the individual competition in ninth place. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he repeated the success with the team when he again won silver , this time behind Poland , together with Vladimir Denisov , Anatoli Koteschew , Leonid Romanow and Viktor Putyatin . In the individual he was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Four years later in Montreal he missed another medal win in both the individual and the team with fourth place. Stankowytsch was also part of the Degen team, with which he reached fifth place.

Web links

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