Aladár Gerevich

Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever".<ref name="cnn">Template:Cite news</ref> He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games.<ref name="databaseolympics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Biography

Gerevich was the first athlete to win the same Olympic event six times (despite two Games cancelled because of the Second World War) with a record 28-year gap between first and last medals.<ref name="olympicsgerevich"/> (Both records were broken by Isabell Werth, who won seven team dressage golds between 1992 and 2024.<ref name="ioc202408">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>)

Gerevich's wife, Erna Bogen (also known as Erna Bogathy), his son, Pál Gerevich, and his father-in-law, Albert Bogen (a silver medalist in team sabre for Austria at the 1912 Summer Olympics), all won Olympic medals in fencing.<ref name="sports-reference"/>

In the Hungarian Olympic trials for the 1960 Rome Olympics, the fencing committee told Gerevich that he was too old to compete. He silenced them by challenging the entire sabre team to individual matches and winning every match.<ref name="olympicsgerevich">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He missed the finals of the 1960 Olympic individual sabre event, and a possible individual gold medal, by a single touch. After retiring, he coached fencing at the Vasas Sports Club in Budapest, where he died aged 81.<ref name="sports-reference">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Asteroid 228893 Gerevich, discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky and Brigitta Sipőcz at Piszkéstető Station in 2003, was named in his memory.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
• List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists

External links

• www.olimpic.org: Aladár Gerevich with photos