Zsolt Nemcsik
Appearance
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Born | Budapest, Hungary | 15 August 1977||||||||||||||
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Zsolt Nemcsik (born 15 August 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sabre fencer.[1] He competed at three Olympic Games.[2]
Nemcsik's two greatest accomplishments is winning the silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Games after losing to Aldo Montano in the final, and also winning the gold medal in the 2007 World Fencing Championships after beating France in the final.
In 2010 he moved to Frascati, joining the local fencing club. While continuing his career as an athlete, he's now also involved in teaching.[3]
Other achievements
- 1998 World Fencing Championships, team sabre
- 2001 World Fencing Championships, team sabre
- 2003 World Fencing Championships, team sabre
- 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, individual sabre
- 2006 World Fencing Championships, individual sabre
- 2007 World Fencing Championships, team sabre
Awards
- Hungarian Fencer of the Year: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2004)
References
- ^ "Nemcsik Zsolt - vívó" (in Hungarian). figyelonet.hu. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ^ "Zsolt Nemcsik Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Zsolt Nemcsik entra nel team di Frascati" (in Italian). Frascati Scherma. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Hungarian fencers
- Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers of Hungary
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Sportspeople from Budapest
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian fencing biography stubs
- Male fencers