Dezső Földes
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The native form of this personal name is Földes Dezső. This article uses the Western name order.
| Olympic medal record | ||
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Competitor for  Hungary |
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| Men's Fencing | ||
| Gold | London 1908 | Team sabre |
| Gold | Stockholm 1912 | Team sabre |
The title of this article contains the characters ő and ö. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.
Dr. Dezső Földes (December 30, 1880, in Miskolc, Hungary – March 27, 1950)[2] was a Hungarian saber fencer.[3][4] He was Jewish.[1]
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[edit] Olympics
Földes, won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.[5]
[edit] Later life
Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950.
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[edit] External links
- Olympic record
- Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1574882848. http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA81&lpg=RA1-PA81&dq=dezs%C3%B6+f%C3%B6ldes&source=web&ots=37b0EtdD04&sig=7gd0JH4xL6FE5iUUY9e4vNdMPD8#PRA1-PA54,M1.
- Jews in Sports bio
- List of Jewish Olympic Medalists
- Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime. The Complete Book of the Olympics (2008 ed.). Great Britain: Aurum Press. p. 616. ISBN 978-1-84513-330-6.
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