Lajos Werkner
Appearance
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's Fencing | ||
Representing Hungary | ||
1908 London | Team sabre | |
1912 Stockholm | Team sabre |
Lajos Werkner (October 23, 1883 in Budapest – November 12, 1943 in Budapest) was a Hungarian sabre fencer.
Olympic career
He won gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games.[1]
At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, his gold medal teammates included Jewish fencers Dr. Jenö Fuchs and Oskar Gerde, both International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame honorees, and Dezsö Földes. Werkner also competed in the individual sabre event, finishing in 8th place.[2]
At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, his gold medal teammates were again Foldes, Fuchs, and Gerde. He finished seventh in the individual event.[2]
Hall of Fame
Werkner, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Lajos Werkner Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ^ a b c "Werkner, Lajos". Jews In Sports. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
External links
- Olympic record
- Jewish Sports bio
- Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-284-8.
- Jews in Sports bio
Categories:
- 1883 births
- 1943 deaths
- Jewish fencers
- Hungarian fencers
- Olympic fencers of Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian Jews
- Sportspeople from Budapest
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian fencing biography stubs
- Male fencers