Daniel Revenu
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Issoudun, Indre, German-occupied France | 5 December 1942||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 January 2024 Melun,Seine et Marne | (aged 81)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Daniel Revenu (5 December 1942 – 2 January 2024) was a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition, and medalist in four successive Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Daniel Revenu was born on 5 December 1942, the son of French fencing coach Ernest Revenu, from Melun. In the 1960s and 1970s Ernest Revenu trained Olympic, world and national fencing champions - Bruno Boscherie, Bernard Talvard, Hugues Leseur, Daniel Provost, Jacky Courtillat, Frédéric Pietruszka and his own son Daniel.[1]
Revenu received a gold medal in foil team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, together with Gilles Berolatti, Christian Noël, Jean-Claude Magnan, and Jacques Dimont. He participated and received medals at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 summer Olympics.[2]
Daniel Revenu died on 2 January 2024, at the age of 81.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Quand Melun dominait l'Europe. Le Parisien. 15 April 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- ^ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Fencing" Archived 29 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 21 June 2008)
- ^ "Décès de Daniel Revenu, champion olympique de fleuret par équipe aux JO 1968". L'Équipe. 3 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
External links
[edit]
- 1942 births
- 2024 deaths
- French male foil fencers
- Olympic fencers for France
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic bronze medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- Sportspeople from Indre
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for France
- Medalists at the 1963 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1965 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century French sportsmen
- French fencing Olympic medalist stubs