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Korsakov (town)>Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR| death_date = | death_place = | country = {{URS}}foil (fencing)>foil| hand = left-handed| height = 1.78 m| weight = 72 kg| medaltemplates ={{Medal|Country | {{URS}} }}{{Medal|Sport|Men’s fencing}}{{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}}{{Medal|W|1|(0 individual)}}{{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}}{{Medal|3rd|2|(2 individual)}}{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}{{Medal|W|10|(5 individual)}}{{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}}{{Medal|3rd|3|(0 individual)}}}}Alexandr 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 His student Amir Khakimov in Uzbekistan Federation Of Fencing is also a champion there and has a total of 40 medals (31 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze) .WEB,www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01, Alexandr Romankov, 2011-04-11, databaseOlympics.com, dead,www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01," title="web.archive.org/web/20110815221811www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01,">web.archive.org/web/20110815221811www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01, 2011-08-15, SPORTS-REFERENCE,www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html,web.archive.org/web/20200417200019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html, dead, 2020-04-17, Alexandr Romankov, 2011-04-11,

Achievements

Olympic Games

• (File:Gold medal.svg|20 px) Foil team (1988)
• (File:Silver medal.svg|20 px) Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
• (File:Bronze medal.svg|20 px) Foil individual (1980, 1988)

Fencing World Cup

• (File:Simple gold cup.svg|20px) Foil (1974, 1976)
• A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).WEB,fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html, Alexander Romankov, fencing-future.com, 29 April 2012,fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20130813082244fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html,">web.archive.org/web/20130813082244fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html, 13 August 2013, dead,
• A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.

Honours

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

See also

• Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships

References

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External links

• {{EFC|00728836}} (www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/alexandr-romankov/results" title="web.archive.org/web/20160927033507www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/alexandr-romankov/results">archive)
• {{Olympics.com profile|aleksandr-romankov|Aleksandr Romankov}}

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