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Olympic medal record
Representing  Sweden
Men's Fencing
Gold medal – first place Moscow 1980 Individual epée

Johan Harmenberg (born September 8, 1954, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish epee fencer.

Harmenberg graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.

Fencing career

He has won eight individual and/or team epee gold medals at Olympic, World Championship, and World Cup competitions.

At the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in Individual Epee. In three of the final matches he won by only one touch. He is the only Swede to have won an individual gold medal in fencing. Harmenberg was a member of the Swedish epee team as well; the team placed 5th in the team epee competition.

He earned his World Championship titles in Individual Epee and Team Epee events at the 1977 competitions in Buenos Aires.

He also won a bronze medal in Team Epee at the 1979 World Championships in Hamburg.

Harmenberg captured three Individual Epee World Cup Championships within four years: 1977 (Bern), 1979 (Heidenheim), and 1980 (Heidenheim). He also won team titles at the 1977 and 1980 World Cups.

Hall of Fame

Harmenberg, who is Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.

Scholarship

Harmenberg co-authored scientific papers entitled "Fencing: Biomedical and Psychological Factors," "Comparison of different tests of fencing performance" (1991), and "Physiological and morphological characteristics of world class fencers" (1990).

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