Jenő Hámori (fencer)
Appearance
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Born | Győr, Hungary | 27 August 1933||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jenő Hámori (born 27 August 1933) is a Hungarian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1] After the 1956 Olympics, he defected to the United States amidst the Soviet invasion of Hungary and represented the U.S. at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jenő Hámori Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
External links
[edit]- Jenő Hámori at Olympedia
- Jenő Hámori at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian)
Categories:
- 1933 births
- Living people
- Hungarian male sabre fencers
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- American male sabre fencers
- Olympic fencers for Hungary
- Olympic fencers for the United States
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Defectors to the United States
- Sportspeople from Győr
- Fencers at the 1971 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in fencing
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian fencing biography stubs
- American fencing biography stubs