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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1925-10-13)13 October 1925 Oran, French Algeria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 July 1988(1988-07-15) (aged 62) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Armand Mouyal (13 October 1925 – 15 July 1988) was a French epee world champion fencer.
Early and personal life
Born in Oran, French Algeria, Mouyal was Jewish.
Fencing career
Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s.
Mediterranean Games
He competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951 where he won a silver medal in the team épée event and in 1955 where he won a gold medal in the team épée event.
National championships
Mouyal, a French police officer, won the French national individual épée title in 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, and 1959.
World championships
Mouyal won the world individual épée championship in 1957.
He participated in team épée, winning a world championship gold medal in 1951; silver in 1953, 1955, 1961, and 1963; and bronze 1954 and 1958.
World rankings
Mouyal was ranked No. 5 in the world in 1955, and 8th in 1956.
Olympics
He was eliminated in the first round of the individual event and the second round of the team event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was a member of the French team that won a bronze medal in team épée at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He advanced to the semifinals in individual épée.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he placed seventh in individual épée, reaching the finals, and the French épée team was eliminated in the second round.
Hall of Fame
Mouyal was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.
See also
References
- ^ "Mouyal, Armand". Jews In Sports. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- Day by Day in Jewish Sports History – Bob Wechsler
- Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities – Paul Yogi Mayer
- "Olympedia – Armand Mouyal". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ "Armand Mouyal". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- "Olympics Statistics: Armand Mouyal". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- "Armand Mouyal Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
External links
Categories:- 1925 births
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- French police officers
- Jewish épée fencers
- Olympic bronze medalists for France
- Olympic fencers for France
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Algerian Jews
- Fencers at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
- Fencers at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing
- 20th-century French sportsmen