Mikhail Burtsev

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Mikhail Ivanovich Burtsev ({{langx|ru|Михаил Иванович Бурцев}}; 21 June 1956 – 16 October 2015){{cite web | url=http://tass.ru/sport/2353543 | title=Скончался двукратный олимпийский чемпион по фехтованию Михаил Бурцев | publisher=Russian News Agency TASS | date=16 October 2015 | accessdate=17 October 2015|language=Russian}} was a Soviet sabre fencer. He won two gold medals and two silvers at three different Olympic Games.

Career

Burtsev began his fencing career in 1965; he originally fenced for Burevstnik, and later for CSKA Moscow. Burtsev was a graduate of the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism. He was named a Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (Заслуженный мастер спорта) in 1980.ФЕХТОВАНИЕ: Энциклопедия / Авторы-составители М. С. Ракита, В. Л. Штейнбах. — М.: Человек, 2011. — {{ISBN|978-5-904885-46-5}} . — С. 43-44. (in Russian)

Burtsev was one of the youngest Olympic fencing champions, being only 20 years old when he won his first gold medal in Canada in 1976. Burtsev was unable to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics because of the Soviet boycott of those games, but went on to win the silver medal in men's team sabre in the 1988 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/mikhail-burtsev-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195440/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/mikhail-burtsev-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Mikhail Burtsev Olympic Results |accessdate=12 April 2011 |work=Sports Reference}} At the 1992 Summer Olympics, he coached the Unified Team fielded by the former Soviet Union,{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2015/10/16/olympic-fencing-champion-mikhail-burtsev-dies-at-59/74043532/ | title=Olympic fencing champion Mikhail Burtsev dies at 59 | publisher=USA Today | date=16 October 2015 | accessdate=17 October 2015}} which took the gold medal at men's team sabre.{{cite web | url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/FEN/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043829/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/FEN/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 April 2020 | title=Fencing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games | publisher=Sports Reference| accessdate=18 October 2015}}

Honours

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Silver medal at the World Championships (1978)
Bronze medal at the World Championships (1979)
Silver medal at the Olympic Games (1980)
Gold medal at the Friendship Games (1984){{cite web | url=http://www.rusfencing.ru/cntnt/o_fehtovan/kto_est_kt/b1/burcev_mih1.html | title=Бурцев Михаил Иванович | publisher=Russian Fencing Federation | accessdate=17 October 2015 | language=Russian | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629161622/http://rusfencing.ru/cntnt/o_fehtovan/kto_est_kt/b1/burcev_mih1.html | archive-date=29 June 2015 | url-status=dead }}
Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1980)