Aladár Gerevich

Aladar Gerevich [ ɒlɒda ː r ɡɛrɛviʧ ] ( born March 16, 1910 in Jászberény, † 14 May 1991 Budapest) was a Hungarian saber fencer.

Gerevich adopted in 1932 for the first time in the Olympic Games and won with the team the Hungarian saber fencer his first Olympic gold medal. This success with the team he repeated in 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960. Aladar Gerevich is thus the only athlete who has won six consecutive Olympic Games gold. This performance seem even more amazing when you consider that 1940 and 1944 no Olympic Games were held because of the Second World War.

Note: Armin Zöggeler won in 2014 at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in the first sledging seater sports his sixth individual medal in the same discipline in six consecutive Olympic Games ( 1994 to 2014 two gold, one silver, three bronze ). The Romanian rower Elisabeta Lipa won in six consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2004 eight individual medals in different disciplines: One double sculls, quadruple sculls and eights.

In individual competition, he won bronze in 1936, gold in 1948 and 1952 silver. In 1952, he won a bronze medal in addition also with the foil team. Gerevich was nine -time World Champion (1951 and 1955 in each ) and five-time European Champion ( 1935 Single).

Aladar Gerevich was married to Erna Arch, who won bronze in 1932 with the foil. Both son Pál Gerevich, twice bronze medalist in 1972 and 1980 with the saber team came on 10 August 1948 world, this day was Aladar Gerevich with the team in London on the piste and denied the preliminary round.

The list of Hungarian successes in saber fencing is long. Between 1908 and 1964 Hungary won the individual competition with the single exception of 1920, when Hungary was not allowed to participate. Among all these Olympic champions Aladar is Gerevich with seven gold medals of the most successful in the history of the Olympic Games.