Alexandr Romankov

Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (; ) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988 ) .

Achievements

• Foil team (1988)
• Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
• Foil individual (1980, 1988)

• Foil (1974, 1976)
• A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).
• A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.

Honours

• Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.
• Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.
• Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.
• Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.
• Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".

See also

• Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships

References

External links

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