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Armand Mouyal (13 October 1925 – 15 July 1988) was a French epee world champion fencer.
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| Birth name | Armand Mouyal | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||
| Born | 13 October 1925 Oran, French Algeria | |||||||||||||
| Died | 15 July 1988 (aged 62) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||
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Early and personal life
Born in Oran, French Algeria, Mouyal was Jewish.[1][2][3]
Fencing career
Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s.[1]
National championships
Mouyal, a French police officer, won the French national individual épée title in 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, and 1959.[4]
World championships
Mouyal won the world individual épée championship in 1957.[4]
He participated in team épée, winning a world championship gold medal in 1951; silver in 1953, 1955, 1961, and 1963; and bronze 1954 and 1958.[4]
World rankings
Mouyal was ranked No. 5 in the world in 1955, and 8th in 1956.[4]
Olympics
He was eliminated in the first round of the individual event and the second round of the team event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was a member of the French team that won a bronze medal in team épée at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He advanced to the semifinals in individual épée.[5][6]
At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he placed seventh in individual épée, reaching the finals, and the French épée team was eliminated in the second round.[1]
Hall of Fame
Mouyal was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.[4]
See also
- List of select Jewish fencers
References
- "Mouyal, Armand". Jews In Sports. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- Day by Day in Jewish Sports History – Bob Wechsler
- Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities – Paul Yogi Mayer
- "Armand Mouyal". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- "Olympics Statistics: Armand Mouyal". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- "Armand Mouyal Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
External links
На других языках
- [en] Armand Mouyal
[fr] Armand Mouyal
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