Yakov_Rylsky

Yakov Rylsky

Yakov Rylsky

Russian fencer (1928–1999)

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]

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Early life

Rylsky was born in Aleksandrovka, Russian SFSR to a Russian mother and Jewish father.[6][2][7]

Fencing career

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

Rylsky had won three gold medals in the individual sabre at the World Fencing Championships (1958, 1961 and 1963).[13][10]

Olympics

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

References

  1. [1]
    (in Russian) Article on Yakov Rylsky in Sovetsky Sport newspaper
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    Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall ... SP Books. ISBN 9781561710287. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
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    Wigoder, Geoffrey (March 3, 1975). Everyman's Judaica: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. Keter Publishing House Jerusalem. ISBN 9780706514124 – via Google Books.
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    "Olympics Statistics: Yakov Rylsky". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
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    "Yakov Rylsky Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
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    "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
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    ""Soviet News" Booklet[s]". Soviet News. March 3, 1958 – via Google Books.
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    (in Russian) Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
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    Siegman, Joseph M. (March 3, 1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. ISBN 9781561710287 – via Google Books.
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    Postal, Bernard; Silver, Jesse; Silver, Roy (March 3, 1965). "Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports". Bloch Publishing Company – via Google Books.
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    Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 576.
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    "Sports 123: Fencing: World Championships: Men: Sabre". October 13, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13.
  14. [14]
    "Yakov Rylsky Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". April 17, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

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