Tamás Gábor
{{Short description|Hungarian fencer (1932–2007)}}
{{Eastern name order|Gábor Tamás}}
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Tamás Gábor (24 April 1932 – 6 May 2007 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Olympic champion épée fencer.
Gábor was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish.[https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=Tam%C3%A1s+G%C3%A1bor+fencing&pg=PA295 Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler]
Fencing career
=National championships=
=World championships=
In World Championships competition, Gábor's individual medals were a bronze medal in 1961 and a silver medal in 1962.[http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html "sports123.com"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709130431/http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html |date=2011-07-09 }} In Team competitions he won three medals: silver in 1957 and 1958, and gold in 1959.[http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/TamasGabor.htm "Tamas Gabor"]
=Olympic career=
In 1960 Gábor came in 17th in individual épée and 4th in Team épée at the Olympics in Rome. He won a gold medal in Team Epee with his Hungarian team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=G%C1BORTAM01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Tamás Gábor |accessdate=2010-10-30 |work=databaseolympics.com}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tamas-gabor-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230703/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tamas-gabor-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Tamás Gábor Olympic Results |accessdate=2010-10-30 |work=sports-reference.com}}
=Hall of Fame=
Gábor was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.{{cite book|title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics: with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists|author=Taylor, P.|date=2004|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=9781903900888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC|page=229|accessdate=2015-06-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/TamasGabor.htm|title=Tamas Gabor|publisher=jewishsports.net|accessdate=2015-06-20}}
Outside fencing
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/TamasGabor.htm Jewish Sports bio]
- [http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=18 Jews in Sports bio]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&dq=t%C3%A1mas+g%C3%A1bor+gold&pg=RA1-PA72 Jewish Sports Legends bio]
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Category:Hungarian male épée fencers
Category:Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
Category:Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic fencers for Hungary
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
Category:Olympic medalists in fencing
Category:International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers from Budapest
Category:20th-century Hungarian sportsmen
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