Claude Netter
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| Born | 23 October 1924 Paris, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 June 2007 (aged 82) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.[1] Netter was Jewish.[2]
Fencing career
[edit]French Championships
[edit]Netter was the French national foil champion in 1952.[1]
World Championships
[edit]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.[1]
Olympics
[edit]Netter won a gold medal in team foil at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.[3] 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.[4]
Netter's final Olympic appearance was in Rome at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the team foil competition. The French team placed 5th.[4]
Mediterranean Games
[edit]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.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Claude Netter Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Claude Netter". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Netter, Claude". Jews in Sports. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ "Olympedia – Claude Netter". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- 1924 births
- 2007 deaths
- French male foil fencers
- Jewish French sportspeople
- Jewish foil fencers
- Olympic fencers for France
- Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Fencers from Paris
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing
- Fencers at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
- 20th-century French sportsmen