Yakov Rylsky
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| Birth name | Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский | ||||||||||||||
| Full name | Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 October 1928 Aleksandrovka, Kazakh ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 December 1999 (aged 71) Moscow, Russia | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| World finals | Three-time gold medalist in individual sabre at the World Championships (1958, 1961 and 1963) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky (Russian: Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский) (25 October 1928 – 9 December 1999)[1] was an Olympic champion and three-time world champion Russian sabre fencer who competed for the Soviet Union.[2][3] He took part in three Olympic Games and won two medals in the team events.[4][5]
Early life
[edit]Rylsky was born in Aleksandrovka, Russian SFSR to a Russian mother and Jewish father.[6][2][7]
Fencing career
[edit]Rylsky began fencing in 1949.[8] He was a member of the USSR national team between 1953 and 1966.[9]
Rylsky was the Soviet sabre champion from 1954 to 1958. In 1963, he won the Dantzer Cup in Paris.[10][11] Rylsky achieved the title of the Russian Merited Master of Sport, the highest honour given to Soviet athletes.[10]
Rylsky trained at Dynamo in Moscow.[12][8]
World championships
[edit]Rylsky had won three gold medals in the individual sabre at the World Fencing Championships (1958, 1961 and 1963).[13][10]
Olympics
[edit]Rylsky competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[14] In the team competition, the Soviet team lost to Poland (7–9) and Hungary (7–9) in the final pool, and subsequently won the bronze medal by beating France in the third-place match.[14][10] Rylsky was eliminated in the second round of the individual competition.[14]
He participated in individual and team events at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[14] The Soviets finished fifth in the team event, and Rylsky reached the finals in the individual competition, finishing eighth overall.[14]
In Rylsky's final Olympiad appearance, at 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, he won the gold medal in the team sabre event.[14][10] Rylsky then finished fourth in the individual event.[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ (in Russian) Article on Yakov Rylsky in Sovetsky Sport newspaper
- ^ a b Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall ... SP Books. ISBN 9781561710287. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
- ^ Wigoder, Geoffrey (March 3, 1975). Everyman's Judaica: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. Keter Publishing House Jerusalem. ISBN 9780706514124 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Yakov Rylsky". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
- ^ "Yakov Rylsky Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
- ^ "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ^ "July 19, 1996 - Image 91". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives.
- ^ a b ""Soviet News" Booklet[s]". Soviet News. March 3, 1958 – via Google Books.
- ^ (in Russian) Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
- ^ a b c d e Siegman, Joseph M. (March 3, 1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. ISBN 9781561710287 – via Google Books.
- ^ Postal, Bernard; Silver, Jesse; Silver, Roy (March 3, 1965). "Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports". Bloch Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 576.
- ^ "Sports 123: Fencing: World Championships: Men: Sabre". October 13, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Yakov Rylsky Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". April 17, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
Sources
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- 1928 births
- 1999 deaths
- Soviet male fencers
- Russian male sabre fencers
- Jewish Russian sportspeople
- Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Jewish sabre fencers
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen