Mark Midler
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| Olympic medal record | |||
Competitor for the  Soviet Union |
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| Gold | 1960 Rome | Team foil | |
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | Team foil | |
Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; born September 24, 1931, in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer.
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[edit] Fencing career
Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.[1] He won two Olympic gold medals.
In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.[2]
[edit] World Championships
Midler captured World Championship titles in the Foil event four consecutive years: l959-62. He was also a member of Soviet Foil teams that won World Team Championships five times: in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966. In 1967, Midler’s Soviet Foil team won a silver medal. Midler won a World Championships silver medal in Individual Foil in 1957, and Individual bronze medals in 1959 and 1961.[1]
[edit] Olympics
Midler was named captain for the 1960 Olympic Games. Captain Midler's team won a gold medal in Team Foil at the Rome Olympics.
Four years later, at the Tokyo Games--again as captain--his Soviet team won their second consecutive Team Foil gold medal.
[edit] Miscellaneous
He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.[2]
[edit] Coaching career
Midler has served through the years as one of the old Soviet Union’s and Russia’s Olympic coaches.
[edit] Hall of Fame
Midler, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
- ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 564.
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