Adrianus de Jong explained
Adrianus Egbert Willem "Adriaan" "Arie" de Jong (21 June 1882 - 23 December 1966) was a fencer who competed at five Olympic Games.[1]
However, he had his greatest international success with the sabre, where he won the first two World Championships in 1922 and 1923.[2]
With the épée, he won bronze at the 1912 Olympics and silver at the 1922 world championships.[3]
During the individual sabre event at the 1924 Olympics, he reached the semi-finals against Hungarian Sándor Pósta and was leading by three hits when an audience member fell through his chair. This distracted the jury, who failed to see De Jong's decisive hit. Disrupted, De Jong lost the bout.[4] De Jong eventually finished fifth (one ahead of eventual seven-time Danish Olympian Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier) while Pósta went on to win gold.[5]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Adrianus de Jong . Olympedia . 25 March 2021.
- Web site: Sports 123: Fencing: World Championships: Men: Sabre . 13 October 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091013150732/http://sports123.com/fen/mw-sa.html . 13 October 2009 .
- Web site: Sports 123: Fencing: World Championships: Men: Epee . 29 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091012040805/http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html . 12 October 2009 .
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202454/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/arie-de-jong-1.html Arie De Jong at Sports Reference
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202437/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1924/FEN/mens-sabre-individual.html Mens Sabre Individual at Sports Reference
