Aladár Gerevich

Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games. He was the first athlete to win the same Olympic event six times, despite two Games being cancelled because of the Second World War, with a record 28-year gap between his first and last medals; both records were later broken by the dressage rider Isabell Werth. Before the 1960 Rome Olympics the Hungarian fencing committee told him he was too old to compete, and he answered by challenging the entire sabre team to individual matches and winning every one.

In Rome he missed the final of the individual sabre event, and a possible individual gold medal, by a single touch. His wife Erna Bogen, his son Pál Gerevich and his father-in-law Albert Bogen all won Olympic medals. After retiring he coached fencing at the Vasas Sports Club in Budapest, where he died aged 81.