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Romanian fencer (born 1954)

Ioan Pop
Personal information
Birth name János Pap[1][2]
Born (1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 70)Cluj-Napoca, Romania[3]
Height 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Event Sabre
Club CSM ClujCSA Steaua București[4]
Medal record Representing Romania Olympic Games Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montréal Sabre, team Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Sabre, team World Fencing Championships Silver medal – second place 1974 Grenoble Sabre, team Bronze medal – third place 1975 Budapest Sabre, team Silver medal – second place 1977 Buenos Aires Sabre, team

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.[4]

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  2. ^ Vívó világversenyek kulisszatitkai | ERDON Archived 19 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Erdon.ro (23 August 2013). Retrieved on 2016-10-10.
  3. ^ "Ioan Pop Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 10 April 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  4. ^ a b Ioan Pop. Romanian Olympic Committee