Epee – Museum Of American Fencing

1967 Pan Am Games gold medal epee team

1967 Pan Am Games gold medal epee team for USA. Standing l to r- Paul Pesthy, Ralph Spinella, Carl Borack, Frank Anger. Kneeling – Coach Delmar Calvert, armorer Dan DeChaine, Coach Stan Sieja.

Stull, Jugan, and Schmidt

3 top Epeeists posed at Westside Fencing Center: 4-time US Epee Champion Rob Stull, US National Epee Team member Bruce Jugan and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist Arndt Schmidt from West Germany.

Stull, 47, is a 3-time Olympian, and competed in Modern Pentathlon in 1984, 1988 and 1992, winning a silver medal as part of the 1984 U.S. Pentathlon team. Pentathlon events include swimming, running, shooting, epee fencing and horseback riding.
VIDEO: Robert Stull Interviewed by Andy Shaw at the Divisional Championships

(1853 – 1939), one of the five founding fathers of the AFLA/USFA. He won three Olympic medals for the US, plus the National individual epee title in 1901, ’02, and ’03, the Individual Men’s Foil in 1901, and the Men’s Epee Team in 1908. Member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame.

Sands, Maj. General Thomas J.

Maj. General Thomas J. Sands
(1903-1984) – AFLA national epee champion (1935, ’37). Member, U.S. Olympic team (1936). At the 1937 World Championships in Paris, Sands attained the individual epee final and finished fifth. IFA epee champion for Army (1927).

Normile, Jon

JON NORMILE was inducted February 18, 2006 (Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame)
Normile came out of the Cleveland area and stepped into Columbia fencing immortality. He helped the Lions to four Ivy League championships (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989), making All-Ivy League three times. Columbia won three consecutive NCAA Championships with Normile’s assistance, in 1987, 1988, and 1989 — in each season, he made All-American. He captained the 1989 team.

Kneeling: Steve Netburn, George Masin, Paul Pesthy.
Standing: Todd Makler, Dave Micahnik, Mike Morgan (organizing committee), Larry Anastasi (holding the permanent Csiszar Trophy), Maestro Lajos Csiszar, James Melcher, and Scott Bozek.

2-time Epee Olympian, Scott Bozek confers with Hall of Fame coach Joe Pechinsky (both with Tanner City FC) at the 1976 US Nationals in Cherry Hill, NJ. photo by Andy Shaw

Marcel Pasche 1930 Epee champion

Marcel Pasche was born in Switzerland and his father later moved the family to Turkey and then to New York City. He probably learned to fence in Switzerland. Fluent in french, Marcel joined the J. Sanford Saltus Club which was housed in the French YMCA.

Women’s Epee Olympians

Best Non-Medaling Olympic Performances

8th Place WET 1996

Elaine Cheris, Nhi Lan Le, Leslie Marx

Women’s Epee Record Holders

4 Titles

Vincent Hayden Bradford 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986

3 Titles

Donna Lee Stone 1987, 1990, 1994

Gustave Heiss is one of the most successful epee fencers in the US history by winning 6 US national championships in men’s epee (representing the NY Fencers’ Club). He went on to fence in the 1932 Olympics and win the Olympic Bronze medal in men’s epee team, and competed in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where the Americans finished 5th.

Jessica Burke overcomes illness, hardships to become star fencer

By Thomas Bassinger, Collegian Staff Writer

Not many athletes can boast that they are Olympic candidates in a sport that they once hated. And not many athletes can return to championship form after suffering a career-threatening illness.

Senior Jessica Burke of the Penn State fencing team is one of a rare breed, however.

Competitor, Coach, Club Director, Tournament Official, and Adminstrator.

Robert Marx won a gold medal at the Junior Olympics in 1976, and competed in Men’s Epee at the Olympics in 1984, 1988, and 1992.

VIDEO: Bob Marx interviewed by Andy Shaw at the 2013 Junior Olympics

1946 US National Epee Champion
Olympics 1948, 1952
Pan Am 1951 World
Administration- 1958 World Championship Team Committee.
born 7-13-1906 Barr, France
represented the Louisville Fencers

5-time US National Foil Team Champion and 2-time US National Epee Champion with Tanner City FC under Joe Pechinsky, Cathy is one of only a handful of women in US fencing history to be nationally ranked in the top 10 in both foil and epee in the same year, an achievement she accomplished 3 times.

Video: Cathy McClellan interviewed by Andy Shaw

Jane Littmann – the first A rated women’s epee fencer in the world.

Richard Berry 1952 All-American, 1952 NCAA Runner-up in individual epee, two-time Big Ten Champion (1952 epee/1953 foil), 1959 PanAm Games, 2-time US National Epee champion 1957 & 1958

VIDEO: Dick Berry interviewed by Andy Shaw

Gil Eisner 1977

Fred Linkmeyer, representing the Los Angeles Athletic Club was a 3-time national épée team champion. He fenced primarily in Los Angeles, where he attended the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC in 1931. The USFA sanctioned USC Linkmeyer Invitational is held annually in his honor by the USC Fencing Club.

2-time US Epee champion Leslie Marx

When Leslie Marx is asked how she is able to juggle her position as an assistant professor at the Simon School of business at the University of Rochester with her standing as the top U.S. epee fencer, she responds with a laugh, “A forgiving employer.”