Emilio Echeverry Explained

Emilio Echeverry
Birth Date:	1929 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia
Death Date:	May 2015 (aged 86)^[1]
Sport:	Fencing
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Emilio Echeverry (8 March 1929  - May 2015) was a Colombian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Echeverry was described by El Tiempo as his nation's "prominent fencer" preceding Mauricio Rivas and Juan Miguel Paz; he won seven medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games between 1946 and 1962 and was twice his country's Olympic flagbearer.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: El COC lamenta el fallecimiento del esgrimista Emilio Echeverry. 5 May 2015. Colombian Olympic Committee. 4 January 2016.
2. Web site: Emilio Echeverry Olympic Results . 16 October 2010 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103194805/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ec/emilio-echeverry-1.html . 3 November 2012 .
3. News: TOQUES. El Tiempo. February 2, 1997.
4. Web site: Emilio Echeverri. Olympedia.org.