Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (; ) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988 ) .

Achievements

1. Olympic Games

2. Foil team (1988)

3. Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)

4. Foil individual (1980, 1988)

5. Fencing World Cup

6. Foil (1974, 1976)

7. A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).

8. A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.

Honours

• Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.

• Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.

• Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.

• Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.

• Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".

See also

• Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships

References

External links

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