Adam Papée
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| Born | 21 July 1895 Lviv, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 March 1990 (aged 94) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||
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Adam Stanisław Papée (born July 21, 1895 in Lwów, died March 6, 1990 in Bydgoszcz) was a Polish fencing champion, one of pioneers of fencing in Poland.
Papée was not only a sportsman, but also an official, one of founders of the Polish Fencing Association (Polski Związek Szermierczy). Between 1926 and 1930, he was the director of this association.
He was four times individual champion of Poland (1926, 1927, 1929, 1932), and four times took part in the Summer Olympic Games (1924–1936), winning two bronze medals in team sabre, in Amsterdam (1928) and Los Angeles (1932).[1] He fenced for two clubs - AZS Kraków and Legia Warszawa. After retirement from active sports, he became a coach, also wrote memoirs Na białą broń, published in 1987.
References
- ^ "Adam Papée Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
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Categories:
- 1895 births
- 1990 deaths
- Sportspeople from Lviv
- Polish Austro-Hungarians
- Polish fencers
- Olympic fencers of Poland
- Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Male fencers