Gaston Alibert
Appearance
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Medal record | ||
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Men's fencing | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1908 London | Épée individual |
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1908 London | Épée team |
Gaston Jules Louis Antoine Alibert (22 February 1878 in Paris – 26 December 1917 in Paris) was a French fencer and olympic champion in épée competition.[1]
He received a gold medal in épée individual and a gold medal in épée team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[2] Eight years before, Alibert already participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris placing seventh in the épée individual event.[3] He contracted tuberculosis while at the front in World War I and later died in 1917 aged 39.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gaston Alibert". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "1908 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Fencing" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 26, 2008)
- ^ "Gaston Alibert biography and olympic results" Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine sports-reference.com (Retrieved on November 6, 2009)
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Categories:
- 1878 births
- 1917 deaths
- Fencers from Paris
- French male épée fencers
- Olympic fencers for France
- Fencers at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- French military personnel of World War I
- 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis deaths in France
- French fencing Olympic medalist stubs