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Peter Toth (fencer)

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Peter Toth

Peter Toth (July 12, 1882 – February 28, 1967) was a Hungarian sabre and foil fencer.

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Olympics

Toth won gold medals in team sabre at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

He competed for Hungary in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the individual Sabre where he won bronze medal and in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam where he came 5th in the team foil competition.

Later life

He was a founding member of Federation Internationale d'Escrime in 1913.

He was working on a book about the history of fencing.

He died in a car accident in Budapest.

References

Peter Toth (fencer) Wikipedia