Claude Netter

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Claude Netter (23 October 1924, in Paris, France – 13 June 2007) was a French Olympic champion foil fencer.

Netter competed in three Olympiads for the French foil team, winning two medals.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/claude-netter-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162613/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/claude-netter-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Claude Netter Olympic Results |accessdate=18 September 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}} Netter was Jewish.{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |isbn=9781903900871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+netter+claude&pg=PA237}}

Fencing career

=French Championships=

Netter was the French national foil champion in 1952.

=World Championships=

Netter was a member of the French team that won the gold medal at the World Championships in 1951, 1953 and 1958. In 1959 he won silver at the World Championships in the individual foil competition.

=Olympics=

Netter won a gold medal in team foil at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=NETTECLA01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Claude Netter |accessdate=18 September 2010 |work=databaseolympics.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019064620/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=NETTECLA01 |archivedate=19 October 2012 }} The French team defeated Egypt (15–1), Hungary (12–4), and Italy (8–6) in the finals.

He won a silver medal in team foil in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and placed 6th in individual foil.

Netter's final Olympic appearance was in Rome at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the team foil competition. The French team placed 5th.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=233|title=Netter, Claude|publisher=Jews in Sports|accessdate=28 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172422/http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=233|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

=Mediterranean Games=

He competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games where he won a silver medal in the team foil event and bronze medals in the individual foil and team sabre events.{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Claude Netter |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21978 |website=olympedia.org |access-date=13 April 2023}}