Ioan Pop

{{Short description|Romanian fencer (born 1954)}}

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{{Eastern name order|Pap János}}

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| birth_name = János Pap[http://www.3szek.ro/load/cikk/66482/egyetemes_magyar_sport_%E2%80%93_lapozgato_53 Egyetemes magyar sport – Lapozgató (53.) – 2013. december 30., hétfő – Háromszék, független napilap Sepsiszentgyörgy]. 3szek.ro. Retrieved on 10 October 2016.[http://www.erdon.ro/vivo-vilagversenyek-kulisszatitkai/2343239 Vívó világversenyek kulisszatitkai | ERDON] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119213002/http://www.erdon.ro/vivo-vilagversenyek-kulisszatitkai/2343239 |date=19 January 2015 }}. Erdon.ro (23 August 2013). Retrieved on 2016-10-10.

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| birth_place = Cluj-Napoca, Romania{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/ioan-pop-1.html |title=Ioan Pop Olympic Results |access-date=10 April 2011 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410213156/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/ioan-pop-1.html |archive-date=10 April 2011 }}

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| height = 176 cm

| weight = 75 kg

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| sport = Fencing

| event = Sabre

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| club = CSM Cluj
CSA Steaua București[http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/ioan-pop Ioan Pop]. Romanian Olympic Committee

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{{MedalBronze|1976 Montréal|Sabre, team}}

{{MedalBronze|1984 Los Angeles|Sabre, team}}

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{{MedalSilver|1974 Grenoble|Sabre, team}}

{{MedalBronze|1975 Budapest|Sabre, team}}

{{MedalSilver|1977 Buenos Aires|Sabre, team}}

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Ioan Pop ({{langx|hu|János Pap}}, born 24 October 1954) is a retired Romanian sabre fencer. He competed at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won team bronze medals in 1976 and 1984. He won three more team medals at the world championships in 1974–1977.

Pop took up fencing aged 11 and after retiring from competitions worked as a coach with Progresul Bucharest and the national sabre team. In 1990 he was elected deputy secretary general of the Romanian Fencing Federation. In 1994 he left Romania to train the national fencing team of Tunisia, where his students included Henda Zaouali. In 1997 he became the first technical director of the International Fencing Federation (FIR), and in 2013 was inducted into the FIE Hall of Fame.