Norman Lewis (fencer)
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 10, 1915 New York City, United States |
| Died | June 6, 2006 (aged 90) |
| Sport | |
| Country | United States |
| Sport | Fencing |
| Event(s) | épée and foil |
| College team | New York University |
| Club | Salle Santelli |
Norman Lewis (December 10, 1915 – June 6, 2006) was an American Olympic épée fencer, who also competed in foil.[1]
Early and personal life
[edit]Lewis was born in New York City, and was Jewish.[2][3][1] He later lived in Kew Gardens, New York, and on Candlewood Lake in Connecticut.[4][5] He and his wife Eva had two daughters, Susan and Joan.[4]
Fencing career
[edit]He fenced for New York University, for whom Lewis was Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) foil champion (1935, 1936, 1937) and épée champion (1937), and his fencing club was Salle Santelli.[6][7][8]
Lewis won the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA)/AAU United States National Fencing Championship in foil in 1939, and in épée in 1948, 1949, and 1950.[9][3][10]
Lewis competed in the individual (coming in 9th, despite defeating both the Swiss silver medalist Oswald Zappelli and the Italian bronze medalist Edoardo Mangiarotti) and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[11][8] He served as captain of the US fencing team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[12]
He later served as President of the Amateur Fencers League of America from 1965 to 1968, and as Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Games Fencing Committee.[13][8]
Lewis is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame.[8] In 1982, he was inducted into the New York University Sport Hall of Fame.[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Champions All!", The Jewish Criterion, September 23, 1938
- ^ Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States
- ^ a b Bob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History
- ^ a b Norman Lewis Obituary - New York, NY | New York Times
- ^ United States Olympic Book
- ^ "Our Sports"
- ^ Facts on File Yearbook
- ^ a b c d Lewis, Norman – US Fencing Hall of Fame
- ^ Martin Harry Greenberg. The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews
- ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
- ^ "Norman Lewis Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
- ^ Norman Lewis Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ^ Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
- ^ SPORTS PEOPLE - Comings and Goings - NYTimes.com
External links
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- 1915 births
- 2006 deaths
- American male foil fencers
- American male épée fencers
- Olympic fencers for the United States
- Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Jewish épée fencers
- Jewish foil fencers
- New York University alumni
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Fencers from New York City
- People from Kew Gardens, Queens
- Sportspeople from Connecticut
- 20th-century American Jews
- 21st-century American Jews