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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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
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.
’96 Olympians, photo taken in the holding area prior to Opening Ceremonies in Atlanta
Photo By Carl Borack
US Epee Champion 1954, US Foil Champion 1956, 1956 Olympian Foil & Epee
Three video interviews: Skip Shurtz
1964 US Olympic Team, won 3 gold medals in the Pan American Games including the 1963 Pan Am Games Epee Champion
William Scott O’Connor, Charles Tatham, C. C. Nadal, and Albertson Van Zo Post
Soren Thompson hooks up with his teammates watching at the ’04 Olympic Games
photo by John Heil
Loyal Tingley was the 1939 US Epee champion and was selected for the 1940 US Olympic Team….but, of course, the Olympics were cancelled due to WWII.
AFLA national epee champion (1964, ’66, ’67, ’68, ’83). Member, U.S. Olympic fencing team (1964, ’68, ’76); member, U.S. Olympic modern pentathlon team (1964, ’68). Olympic silver medalist, Pentathlon team 1964, World Team Bronze 1962, ’63. IFA epee champion (1964) and NCAA epee champion (1964, ’65) for Rutgers.
Carol Kuzen, Carl Borack, Stan Sieja, Denise O’Connor, “vladimir” our interpreter, and Leslie Bleamaster
Photo taken by Joe Elliottt, Moscow World Championships, 1966
Max went to California State University Long Beach, and wanted to be a writer. He loved fencing and was a B-rated fencer when he died. He fenced foil his first year.
l to r Holt Farley, Steve Trevor, Chuck Michael, Lee Shelley, Bob Marx. The U.S. Men’s World Championships Epee Team, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1986. photo by Carl Borack
