Richard Oldcorn

Richard Oldcorn

Personal information
Born	(1938-02-21) 21 February 1938 Iver, Buckinghamshire England
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Fencing Representing England British Empire & Commonwealth Games 1966 Kingston team sabre

Richard Oldcorn (born 21 February 1938) is a former British international fencer. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Fencing career

Oldcorn represented England and won a gold medal in the team sabre, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

He was last selected to fence for Great Britain at the world championships in Buenos Aires in 1977, although injury prevented his taking part. Thereafter he became team manager, first of the national sabre team then for the entire British fencing team, managing them at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Although he never won the national sabre championship (his best placing was second) from 1968 till the early 1970s he was the most successful British sabreur in international competition.

Beyond the world of fencing, he won a Blue at Cambridge as a discus-throwing member of the university athletics team. After Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences, he became a successful rainmaker for several advertising companies before a back injury sustained at his school, Sevenoaks, led him to retire to Sydney, Australia, in the 1980s.