Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky (Russian: Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский) (25 October 1928 in the village of Aleksandrovka, Verkhubinsky District, East Kazakhstan Region – 9 December 1999 in Moscow)[1] was an Olympic champion and three-time world champion sabre fencer of the Soviet Union.[2][3] He competed in three Olympiads, and won two medals for the Soviet Union's fencing team.[4][5]
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Birth name | Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский | |||||||||||||
Full name | Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky | |||||||||||||
Born | (1928-10-25)25 October 1928 Aleksandrovka, East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
Died | 9 December 1999(1999-12-09) (aged 71) Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||
Team | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||
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World finals | 3-time gold medalist in individual sabre at the World Championships (1958, 1961, and 1963) | |||||||||||||
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Rylsky began fencing in 1949.[6] He was a member of the USSR National Team between 1953 and 1966.[7]
Rylsky was the Soviet sabre champion from 1954–58. In 1963, he was the winner of the Dantzer Cup in Paris.[8][9] He was a Merited Master of Sport in the Soviet Union, the highest honor give to Soviet athletes.[8]
Rylsky trained at Dynamo in Moscow.[10][6]
Rylsky was a 3-time gold medalist in individual sabre at the World Fencing Championships (the 1958 World Fencing Championships, 1961 World Fencing Championships, and 1963 World Fencing Championships).[11][8]
Rylsky competed in the individual and team sabre events in Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[12] In the team competition, Rylsky and his teammates lost to Poland (9–7) and Hungary (9–7) in the final pool, but won the bronze medal by beating France in the third-place match.[12][8] Rylsky was eliminated in the second round of the individual competition.[12]
Rylsky participated in individual and team events in Fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[12] They finished fifth in the team event, and Rylsky reached the finals in the individual competition and finished eighth.[12]
In Rylsky's final Olympiad appearance, in Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won a gold medal in the team sabre event.[12][8] He finished fourth in the individual event.[12]