Ioan Pop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ioan Pop

fencer

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1954

Place of Birth: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County

Profession: fencer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Ioan Pop

  • Ioan Pop (Hungarian: János Pap, born 24 October 1954) is a retired Romanian sabre fencer.
  • He competed at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won team bronze medals in 1976 and 1984.
  • He won three more team medals at the world championships in 1974–1977. Pop took up fencing aged 11 and after retiring from competitions worked as a coach with Progresul Bucharest and the national sabre team.
  • In 1990 he was elected deputy secretary general of the Romanian Fencing Federation.
  • In 1994 he left Romania to train the national fencing team of Tunisia, where his students included Henda Zaouali.
  • In 1997 he became the first technical director of the International Fencing Federation (FIR), and in 2013 was inducted into the FIE Hall of Fame.

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