Franco Riccardi
Italian fencer
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Born | 13 June 1905 (1905-06-13) Milano | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 24 May 1968 (1968-05-25) (aged 62) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Franco Riccardi (13 June 1905 – 24 May 1968) was one of the greatest Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
Biography
He received a gold medal in épée individual at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.[1] He received a gold medal in épée team in 1928 and in 1936, and a silver medal in 1932.
References
- ^ "1936 Summer Olympics – Berlin, Germany – Fencing"databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 26, 2008) Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Franco Riccardi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Franco Riccardi at Olympedia
- Franco Riccardi at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
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Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Individual Épée
- 1900: Ramón Fonst (CUB)
- 1904: Ramón Fonst (CUB)
- 1908: Gaston Alibert (FRA)
- 1912: Paul Anspach (BEL)
- 1920: Armand Massard (FRA)
- 1924: Charles Delporte (BEL)
- 1928: Lucien Gaudin (FRA)
- 1932: Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici (ITA)
- 1936: Franco Riccardi (ITA)
- 1948: Luigi Cantone (ITA)
- 1952: Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA)
- 1956: Carlo Pavesi (ITA)
- 1960: Giuseppe Delfino (ITA)
- 1964: Grigory Kriss (URS)
- 1968: Győző Kulcsár (HUN)
- 1972: Csaba Fenyvesi (HUN)
- 1976: Alexander Pusch (FRG)
- 1980: Johan Harmenberg (SWE)
- 1984: Philippe Boisse (FRA)
- 1988: Arnd Schmitt (FRG)
- 1992: Éric Srecki (FRA)
- 1996: Aleksandr Beketov (RUS)
- 2000: Pavel Kolobkov (RUS)
- 2004: Marcel Fischer (SUI)
- 2008: Matteo Tagliariol (ITA)
- 2012: Rubén Limardo (VEN)
- 2016: Park Sang-young (KOR)
- 2020: Romain Cannone (FRA)