Alexandr Romankov
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Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (Belarusian: Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў, romanized:Alyaksandr Anatolyevich Ramankow; Russian: Александр Анатольевич Романьков, romanized:Aleksandr 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
External links
- at the European Fencing Confederation ()
- at Olympics.com
- at Olympic.org (archived)
- at Olympedia