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| Full name | Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1953-11-07) 7 November 1953 (age 71) Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
References
- "Alexandr Romankov". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alexandr Romankov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
- ^ "Alexander Romankov". fencing-future.com. Archived from the original on 13 August 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
External links
- Alexandr Romankov at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
- Aleksandr Romankov at Olympics.com
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Soviet male fencers
- Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade