Ioan Pop (Hungarian: János Pap, born 24 October 1954) is a retired Romanian sabre fencer. He competed at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won team bronze medals in 1976 and 1984. He won three more team medals at the world championships in 1974–1977.

Ioan Pop

Personal information
Birth name	János Pap[1][2]
Born	(1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 67) Cluj-Napoca, Romania[3]
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	Sabre
Club	CSM Cluj CSA Steaua București[4]
Medal record Representing  Romania Olympic Games 1976 Montréal Sabre, team 1984 Los Angeles Sabre, team World Fencing Championships 1974 Grenoble Sabre, team 1975 Budapest Sabre, team 1977 Buenos Aires Sabre, team

Pop took up fencing aged 11 and after retiring from competitions worked as a coach with Progresul Bucharest and the national sabre team. In 1990 he was elected deputy secretary general of the Romanian Fencing Federation. In 1994 he left Romania to train the national fencing team of Tunisia, where his students included Henda Zaouali. In 1997 he became the first technical director of the International Fencing Federation (FIR), and in 2013 was inducted into the FIE Hall of Fame.[4]

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