Alexandr Romankov

Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (Belarusian: Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў, romanized: Alyaksandr Anatolyevich Ramankow; Russian: Александр Анатольевич Романьков, romanized: Aleksandr Anatolyevich Romankov) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988 ) .^[1][2]

Alexandr Romankov
Romankov in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov
Born	(1953-11-07) 7 November 1953 (age 71) Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country	Soviet Union
Weapon	foil
Hand	left-handed
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Men's fencing Olympic Games Winner 1 (0 individual) Runner-up 2 (1 individual) 2 (2 individual) World Championships Winner 10 (5 individual) Runner-up 2 (1 individual) 3 (0 individual)

Achievements

Olympic Games

• Foil team (1988)
• Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
• Foil individual (1980, 1988)

Fencing World Cup

• Foil (1974, 1976)
• A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).^[3]
• A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.^[3]

Honours

• Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.^[3]
• Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.^[3]
• Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.^[3]
• Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.^[3]
• Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".^[3]

See also

• Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships