Bill Hoskyns
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 March 1931 London, England |
| Died | 4 August 2013 (aged 82)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Fencing |
Medal record | |
Henry William Furse "Bill" Hoskyns MBE (19 March 1931 – 4 August 2013) was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games.,[2]
Fencing career
[edit]Hoskyns, born in London won two silver medals in 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games.[3] No British fencer has won an Olympic medal since. He competed with all three weapons (doing so in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics) but he was especially effective at Épée, where he was 1958 World Champion. He is one of only five fencers to compete in at least six Olympic Games.
He was eight times British champion, winning three foil, four epee and one sabre title at the British Fencing Championships. Only Edgar Seligman had previously achieved winning the British title with the three different weapons and his great rival, Allan Jay failed to win the sabre title. During the time (1950 to 1970) that fencing was a sport at the Commonwealth Games, Hoskyns won nine gold (four individual) and one silver medal. Individually, he won gold in both épée and sabre in 1958, gold in épée and silver in foil 1966, gold in Épée in 1970.[4][5][6]
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he was part of the British silver medal-winning épée team. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Hoskyns won silver in the épée, losing to Soviet fencer Grigory Kriss in the final.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Somerset's Olympic 'gentleman sportsman' Henry 'Bill' Hoskyns dies aged 82". Western Daily Press. Local World. 7 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Bill Hoskyns Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Bill Hoskyns". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
External links
[edit]- 1931 births
- 2013 deaths
- British male fencers
- Olympic fencers for Great Britain
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
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- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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- Fencers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Fencers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
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- English Olympic medallists
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games