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Pál Kovács

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Weapon(s)
  
Height
  
1.79 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Name
  
Pal Kovacs

Hand
  
right-handed

Weight
  
64 kg

Pal Kovacs

Born
  
17 July 1912Debrecen, Hungary (
1912-07-17
)

Club
  
Honved Tiszti Vivo Klub OTGanz-Mavag SportegyesuletMavag SportegyesuletVasas Sport Club

Died
  
July 8, 1995, Budapest, Hungary

Children
  
Tamas Kovacs, Attila Kovacs

Olympic medals
  
Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Men\'s Sabre, Individual

Similar People
  
Rudolf Karpati, Aladar Gerevich, Endre Kabos, Jerzy Pawlowski, Renzo Nostini

Pál Kovács (17 July 1912 – 8 July 1995) was a Hungarian athlete, who began as a hurdler, but eventually switched to fencing.

Pál Kovács wwwamericanhungarianfederationorgFamousHungaria

By the time Kovács won his first fencing gold, in 1936, he had already been a member of the winning Hungarian team at the 1933 World Championships. The Hungarians would go on to win team sabre gold in five successive Olympics, lasting from 1936 until 1960. The same team won gold eight back-to-back world championships (including the two Olympics, which double as world championships in their respective years). Kovács also won individual gold in 1952, as well as individual bronze in 1948. In 1980, he became vice-president of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. He died in Budapest in July 1995.

References

Pál Kovács Wikipedia


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