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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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| Birth name | Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский | ||||||||||||||
| Full name | Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 October 1928 Aleksandrovka, Kazakh ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 December 1999 (aged 71) Moscow, Russia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| World finals | Three-time gold medalist in individual sabre at the World Championships (1958, 1961 and 1963) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rylsky was born in Aleksandrovka, Russian SFSR to a Russian mother and Jewish father.[6][2][7]
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]
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