Grigory Kriss
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Full name | Hryhoriy Yakovych Kriss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 24 December 1940|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Épée | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Armed Forces Kiev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grigory Yakovlevich Kriss (Ukrainian: Григорій Якович Крісс, Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Крисс, born 24 December 1940[1]) is a retired Soviet Olympic épée fencer who won four Olympic medals.
Early life
Kriss was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and is Jewish.[2][3][4][5][6] He was an officer in the Red Army of the Soviet Union.[7]
Fencing career
He competed at the 1964 Olympics winning a gold medal in Individual Epee, the 1968 Olympics winning silver medals in both Individual Epee and Team Epee, and the 1972 Olympics winning a bronze medal in Team Epee.[8][9]
At the World Championships he won the Individual Epee silver medal in 1967, the Individual Epee gold medal in 1971, and four World Team Epee medals: a bronze in 1965, a silver in 1966, a gold in 1969, and a silver in 1971.[10]
Hall of Fame
Kriss was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.[11][12]
Life outside competitive fencing
He was a physical education teacher, and a fencing coach.[13][14]
See also
References
- ↑ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 556.
- ↑ The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Joseph M. Siegman
- ↑ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics: with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 235. ISBN 9781903900888. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica - Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum
- ↑ Everyman's Judaica: An Encyclopedic Dictionary
- ↑ The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds ... - Martin Harry Greenberg
- ↑ The Games: A Global History of the Olympics - David Goldblatt
- ↑ "Hryhoriy Kriss Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ↑ XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, Grenoble 1968 - Carl Posey
- ↑ "Grigori Kriss"
- ↑ "Grigori Kriss". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ Northern California Jewish Bulletin
- ↑ "Kriss, Soviet Union Fencer, Regains World Epee Crown" - The New York Times
- ↑ Culture and Life
External links
- Hryhoriy Kriss at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- Grigori Kriss at the International Olympic Committee
- Jewish Sports Legends bio