Viktor Franzewitsch Zhdanowitsch

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Viktor Franzewitsch Schdanowitsch ( Russian Виктор Францевич Жданович ; born January 27, 1938 in Leningrad ) is a former Russian fencer who won three Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union with the foil .

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Zhdanovich began fencing in 1953. With the Soviet team he already took part in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, but failed in the semifinals against the teams from Hungary and France. At the fencing world championship in Budapest in 1959 , he won the team championship together with Mark Midler , Juri Sissikin , German Sweschnikow and Juri Rudow . The Briton Allan Jay won the singles .

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, he managed to win the gold medal in the individual competition of the final with seven wins from seven battles in front of his teammates Juri Sissikin and Mark Midler. The team won the final over the Italians. The line-up was identical to that of the 1959 World Cup.

The Soviet team also won the fencing world championships in 1961 , 1962 and 1963 in largely the same line-up ; In 1962 Rudow was absent, in 1963 Sissikin was absent.

At the Olympic Games in 1964 , Zhdanovich came in the individual competition in the round of 16, but then retired like Midler and Svezhnikov. In the final, the Pole Egon Franke won against the French individual world champion Jean-Claude Magnan . In the team competition, the Soviet Union competed with Sveshnikov, Midler, Sissikin, Yuri Sharov and Zhdanovich. In the semifinals they won against France 9: 6; in the final they defeated the Poles 9: 7.

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SURNAME Zhdanovich, Viktor Franzewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Жданович, Виктор Францевич (Russian); Zhdanovich, Viktor (English transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet foil fencer and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union