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Winners of the men's individual epee event at the 1972 Olympic Games. From left to right: Jacques Guy Ladègaillerie (France, 2nd place), Csaba Fenyvesi (Hungary, 1st place), and Gyoezoe Kulcsar (Hungary, 3rd place).

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"ASSOCIATED PRESS…

Photograph of the three winning teams in the men's team foil competition at the 1972 Olympic Games. From left to right, the teams pictured are the Soviet Union (2nd place), Poland (1st place), and France (3rd place).

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"MEDAILLE…

Four members of the French foil fencing team, (from left to right)
Bernard Gérard Talvard, Christian Noël, Jean-Claude Magnan et Daniel Jean Claude Ernest Revenu wearing their bronze medals won in the men's team foil competition during the 1972…

Ildikó Rejtő-Ujlaky-Sági (Hungary, depicted left) fences foil with Maria Consolata Collino (Italy, depicted right) during the 1972 Olympic Games.

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"MUNICH, Sept. 8-EN GARDE-Hungary's Ildiko Sagine Rejtoe, left, does battle with…

Viktor Aleksandrovich Sidyak (Soviet Union) reacts triumphantly after winning the gold medal in the men's individual sabre competition of the 1972 Olympic Games.

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"Munich, Sept. 1--HE STRUCK GOLD--Soviet fencer Victor Sidiak…

Witold Woyda of Poland, who won all five of his final matches, is tossed in the air to celebrate his winning of the gold medal during the men's individual foil competition at the 1972 Olympic Games.

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"Munich, Aug. 31--OLYMPIC…

Sándor Erdős (Hungary, depicted right) fencing with François Suchanecki (Switzerland, depicted left) in the finals of the men's team epee competition during the 1972 Olympic Games. The Hungarian team won the gold medal, and the Swiss won the…

Alfonso Hector Morales (United States, at right) fences Boris Stavrev (Bulgaria, at left) in a quarter-final bout of the individual sabre competition during the 1972 Olympic Games. Morales did not qualify for the semi-finals.

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Antonella Ragno Lonzi of Italy receives the gold medal in the women's individual foil competition at the 1792 Olympic Games.

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"Munich: Une italienne remporte la medaille d'or au fleuret individuel.
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C'est l'Italienne…

Walter Esser (Germany) resting while Akira Kubo (Japan; background at right) fences Hole Rössler (Germany; background at left) during the modern pentathlon fencing competition at the 1972 Olympic Games.

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"8/28/72-MUNICH: With…

Top six competitors of the 1972 Modern Pentathlon Olympic Trials. Top row, from left to right: James Cherry (5th place), Loren Drum (4th place), Paul Pesthy (6th place). Bottom row, left to right: John Fitzgerald (3rd place), Charles Richards (1st…

Marie-Chantal Demaille (formerly Depetris) of France in tears after the judges reversed a touch she made against opponent Kerstin Ullasdotter Palm of Sweden, whom she ultimately lost the bout to as well the opportunity for the bronze medal. Demaille…