Theodor Fischer (fencer)

Theodor Fischer was a German épée and foil fencer. He fenced in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and won two medals in fencing at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.

Biography[edit]

Fischer competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[1] In each, Fischer was eliminated in the second round (the quarter-finals).^[2]^[3] He came in 12th in individual epee.^[4] He defeating reigning Olympic épée champion Charles Delporte from Belgium, Elie Adda of Egypt, Georgios Ambet of Greece, Josef Jungmann of Czechoslovakia, Frederico Paredes of Portugal, and lost to among others gold-medal-winning Lucien Gaudin of France, Bertie Childs of Great Britain, Édouard Fitting of Switzerland, and Dan Gheorghiu of Romania.^[4]

Fischer finished eighth at the 1928 German Fencing Championships.^[5] He fenced for Dresdener Fechtclub.^[2]

He fenced at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, winning a silver medal in men's foil and a bronze medal in épée.^[6]

^ "Theodor Fischer Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Theodor Fischer," Olympics.com
^ Tchir, Paul (19 January 2022). "1928 German Olympic Mysteries".
^ ^a ^b "Épée, Individual, Men". Olympedia.
^ Max Schröder (1938). German art of fencing Georg Koenig book printing and publishing house, pp. 49-66
^ "Maccabiah Games before World War II". sport-record.de.

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