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Jul 01, 1951 Budapest, Hungary Died on 22 May 2014 (aged 62)
Hungarian fencer
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About Imre Gedővári
- Imre Gedovári (1 July 1951 – 22 May 2014) was a Hungarian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.
- He won his first World Championship medal, a silver, in 1975 and made his Olympic debut in 1976.
- He won his first World Championship gold medals in 1978 for team sabre, adding two more in 1981 and 1982.
- At the 1980 Olympics, he won two bronze medals.
- At the 1988 Olympics, Gedovári won the decisive match in a come-from-behind gold medal performance for Hungary.
- He retired from competition after the Olympics as a ten-time national champion.
- He remained active in sport, working for the Hungarian Fencing Federation and Újpesti TE. Gedovári was awarded an Order of the Star by Hungary in 1988, and was twice named national fencer of the year.
- He fenced left-handed and had a tall, slender build.
