{"id":278,"date":"2025-06-24T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/marx-michael\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:32:04","slug":"marx-michael","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/marx-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Marx, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>5-time Olympic team member, 8 national foil titles<\/div>\n<div>\nVIDEO: Michael Marx interviewed by Andy Shaw at the 2010 Junior Olympics in Memphis, TN<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPart 1<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKQPiwFRFHs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LoSA3a_O2nA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonsportshall.org\/michael_marx.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonsportshall.org\/michael_marx.html\">From Oregon Sports Hall of Fame:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A five-time Olympic team member in 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996, Michael Marx has had a long and successful career in fencing. Michael has a record holding eight national championships in foil. Marx is also a five-time USOC Athlete of the Year and a silver medal winner at the World University Games in 1985, the highest finish ever for a U.S. team member. He served as vice president of the U.S. Fencing Association from 1992 to 1996. In 1993, Marx earned his Master of Arms degree in Poland. He is a staff member of the USFA Coaches College, coaching upper level classes, writing manuals and teaching. Currently, Michael coaches at the RFC and is the national women&#8217;s epee coach. His students won 12 of the 24 national championships for women&#8217;s epee. His athletes have competed for the last 3 Olympic teams in both epee and foil. Michael is the only fencer in the last 50 years to make the U.S. team in two weapons: the epee and the foil; and has been enshrined in the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame. He is the Fencing Master at the Northwest Fencing Center in Beaverton.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Marx (right) vs. Loguin (USSR) during 1985 World University Games.<\/p>\n<div>Marx took the silver medal. (Photo by John Friedberg)<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"Michael Marx\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARX1985Jan86.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Marx\" width=\"450\" height=\"586\" align=\"bottom\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARX1985Jan86.jpg 450w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARX1985Jan86-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Michael and Bob Marx on the cover of American Fencing Magazine 1976<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"width: 435px; height: 654px;\" title=\"Michael Marx\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARXbrothers1976L.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Marx\" width=\"435\" height=\"654\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Marx and his wife Leslie Marx at the Atlanta Olympics (both of them competed)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"MichaelLeslieinhats'96.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MichaelLeslieinhats%2796.jpg\" alt=\"MichaelLeslieinhats'96.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"450\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1988 US Olympic Foil Team:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-277\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_1988-Mens-Foil-Team.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_1988-Mens-Foil-Team.JPG 697w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_1988-Mens-Foil-Team-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div> \t<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=124&amp;Itemid=45\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-273\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"Michael Marx\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_marx-banner.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 650px; height: 150px;\" title=\"Michael Marx\" width=\"650\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_marx-banner.jpg 650w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mensfoil_marx-banner-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div> \t&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"parent":0,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[183,155,193,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-278","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-mens-foil","7":"tag-foil-fencing","8":"tag-marx","9":"tag-mens-foil","10":"tag-michael"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}