Épée, Individual, Men

Despite nearly 20 years of competition at the highest level, Hungary’s Győző Kulcsár never won an individual medal. At the Olympic Games however he was close to unbeatable when the momentum was in his favour. In Tokyo he had blitzed all opposition to lead Hungary to team gold and four years later in Mexico City he repeated this form and lost only once in 18 bouts to claim the individual title.

Defending Olympic champion Hryhoriy Kriss was the only man to defeat Kulcsár but was unable to repeat this feat in the barrage for the medals and had to settle for silver ahead of Italy’s Gianluigi Saccaro.