{"id":325,"date":"2025-06-25T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/gehrig-adeline\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:16:42","slug":"gehrig-adeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/gehrig-adeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gehrig, Adeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adeline Gehrig won 4 consecutive foil titles<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adeline Gehrig is the only woman in US foil history to win 4 consecutive titles. She then retired. Adeline Gehrig represented the New York Turn Verein.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-319\" style=\"border: 0px none #000000; margin: 5px 6px;\" title=\"Adeline Gehrig\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/AdelineGehrig2.jpg\" alt=\"Adeline Gehrig \" width=\"267\" height=\"409\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/AdelineGehrig2.jpg 267w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/AdelineGehrig2-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Adeline Gehrig, 1924 Olympic Team<br \/>\nPhoto from collection of Michael Bowlby<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 400px; height: 578px;\" title=\"adelineGEHRIGOlympicTeam1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/adelineGEHRIGOlympicTeam1.jpg\" alt=\"adelineGEHRIGOlympicTeam1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"578\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-321\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a2.jpg 504w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a2-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a3.jpg 493w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_a3-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_ajpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_ajpg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig_ajpg-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alice Glienke (R) and Adeline [Adelaide?] Gehrig (L), both US female fencing champions in the 1920s. Gehrig competed in the first Olympics open to women in 1924. (From the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/mainehistory.pastperfect-online.com\/32314cgi\/mweb.exe?request=record;id=57190511-575D-4BD7-85B7-801649105468;type=501\">Maine Historical Society<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig20050611707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig20050611707.jpg 640w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_gehrig20050611707-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \t<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=135&amp;Itemid=44\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-318\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"Adeline_Gehrig_banner.jpg\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Adeline_Gehrig_banner.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 650px; height: 150px;\" title=\"Adeline_Gehrig_banner.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Adeline_Gehrig_banner.jpg 650w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Adeline_Gehrig_banner-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/> \tAdeline Gehrig won 4 consecutive foil titles<\/p>\n<p> \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"parent":0,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[219,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-325","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-womens-foil","7":"tag-adeline-gehrig","8":"tag-gehrig"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}