Peter Jacobs (fencer)

Peter Jacobs
Personal information
Born (1938-09-26) 26 September 1938
Pinner, London, England
Sport
Country United Kingdom
Sport Fencing
Event(s) Epee
College team Queens College, Cambridge University

Peter Jacobs (born 26 September 1938) is a British fencer who competed at the Olympics.

Early and personal life

Jacobs was born in Pinner, Greater London, Great Britain, and is Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He attended and fenced for Queens College in Cambridge University.[5]

Fencing career

Jacobs won the Great Britain team epee championship in 1962 and 1964.[3] He won a bronze medal in epee and a gold medal in epee team at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, and again in the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[6]

Jacobs competed in individual and team epee at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and in team epee at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[1]

In 1970 Jacobs was the British champion in individual epee.[6]

Jacobs wrote the foreward to the book entitled Fencing: Techniques of Foil, Epee and Sabre by Brian Pitman (1988).[7] He served on the Executive Committee of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) for 24 years, 12 as Secretary-Treasurer, and stepped down in 2013 and was elected to the Legal Commission.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Jacobs Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  2. ↑ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
  3. 1 2 Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
  4. ↑ Page 2, The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, September 6, 1968.
  5. ↑ "Queens' Olympians, Blues & Internationals," Queens' College.
  6. 1 2 Graham Groom. The Complete Book Of The Commonwealth Games
  7. ↑ Brian Pitman. Fencing: Techniques of Foil, Epee and Sabre
  8. ↑ "FIE Elections," The Sword, April 2013.
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