Alexandr Romankov Explained

Alexandr Romankov
Full Name:	Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov
Birth Date:	7 November 1953
Birth Place:	Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Weapon:	foil
Hand:	left-handed
Height:	1.78 m
Weight:	72 kg

Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (Belarusian: Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў|Alyaksandr Anatolyevich Ramankow; Russian: Александр Анатольевич Романьков|Aleksandr Anatolyevich Romankov) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988) .^{[1] [2]}

Achievements

Olympic Games

• Foil team (1988)
• Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
• Foil individual (1980, 1988)

Fencing World Cup

• Foil (1974, 1976)
• A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).^[3]
• A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.^[3]

Honours

• Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.^[3]
• Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.^[3]
• Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.^[3]
• Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.^[3]
• Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".^[3]

See also

• Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships

External links

• (archive)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alexandr Romankov . 2011-04-11 . databaseOlympics.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110815221811/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01 . 2011-08-15 .
2. Alexandr Romankov . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417200019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2011-04-11.
3. Web site: Alexander Romankov. fencing-future.com. 29 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130813082244/http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html. 13 August 2013. dead.