Gaston Alibert
Appearance
Gaston Alibert (1908) | ||
Medal record | ||
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Men's fencing | ||
Representing France | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1908 London | Épée individual | |
London 1908 | Épée team |
Gaston Alibert (February 22, 1878 in Paris – December 26, 1917) was a French fencer and olympic champion in épée competition.
He received a gold medal in épée individual and a gold medal in épée team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[1] Eight years before, Alibert already participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris placing seventh in the épée individual event.[2] He contacted tuberculosis while at the front in World War I.
References
- ^ "1908 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Fencing" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 26, 2008)
- ^ "Gaston Alibert biography and olympic results" Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine sports-reference.com (Retrieved on November 6, 2009)
Categories:
- 1878 births
- 1917 deaths
- Sportspeople from Paris
- French male fencers
- French épée fencers
- Olympic fencers of France
- Fencers at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- French military personnel of World War I
- French fencing Olympic medalist stubs