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Dezső Földes
Medal record
Men's fencing
Representing   Hungary
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team sabre
Gold medal – first place 1912 Stockholm Team sabre

Dezső Földes (30 December 1880 in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary – 27 March 1950 in Cleveland, United States) [1] was a Hungarian saber fencer. [2] [3]

Olympics

Földes won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. [4]

Life

He was Jewish, [5] [6] [7] [8] and was born into a Hungarian Jewish family [9] in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary. [2] Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950. [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hungary". Olympic-Medallists.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2014.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)
  2. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dezső Földes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  3. ^ "Dezső Földes". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  4. ^ Eisen, George. "Jewish Olympic Medalists". JewishSports.net. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  5. ^ Szalai, Anna (2002). In the land of Hagar: the Jews of Hungary: history, society and culture - Anna Szalai. Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. ISBN  9789650511579.
  6. ^ Handler, Andrew (1985). From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary - Andrew Handler. East European Monographs. ISBN  9780880330855.
  7. ^ Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler. KTAV Publishing House. ISBN  9780881259698.
  8. ^ Greenspoon, Leonard Jay (2012). Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics. Purdue University Press. ISBN  9781557536297.
  9. ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics. Sussex Academic Press. p. 18. ISBN  978-1-903900-87-1.
  10. ^ "Foldes, Deszo". Jews in Sports. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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