Allan Jay

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Allan Louis Neville Jay
Allan Jay, Giuseppe Delfino, Bruno Habārovs 1960 Olympics.jpg
Jay (left) at the 1960 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1931-06-30) 30 June 1931 (age 90)
London, England
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country Great Britain
SportFencing
Event(s)Foil and epee
Medal record

Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE (born 30 June 1931) is a British former five-time-Olympian foil and épée fencer, and world champion.

Early life[]

Jay was born in London, England, and is Jewish.[1][2] His father died fighting in World War II in 1943.[2] He attended Cheltenham College from 1944 to 1948.[2] He spent much of his childhood in Australia. After 1950 he returned to Britain to study law at the University of Oxford, and later worked as a solicitor while serving as fencing official with the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Jay and his wife Carole have two children.[3]

Fencing career[]

Jay competed internationally in 1950 for Australia. He was Great Britain's épée champion in 1952, 1959, 1960, and 1961, and Great Britain's foil champion in 1963.[4] Jay competed in five Olympics in both épée and foil, winning silver medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics in individual and team épée.[5][6] He was Great Britain's flag bearer in the 1964 Olympic Games.[2]

At the World Fencing Championships, Jay won a bronze medal in team foil in 1955, a bronze medal in individual foil in 1957, and a gold medal in individual foil while also winning a silver medal in individual épée in 1959, becoming the first British world champion in foil and the last fencer to win two individual medals in one year.[7][8]

He won three gold medals while fencing both foil and épée at each of the 1953 Maccabiah Games and the 1957 Maccabiah Games.[5][1][9] He is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, having been elected in 1985.[7][2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Eight Jewish Athletes at BEG". The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. 30 July 1954.
  2. ^ a b c d e Ron Kaplan (2015). The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-63220-855-2.
  3. ^ "Looking back to our Olympic glory"
  4. ^ W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
  5. ^ a b "Allan Jay". Jewishsports.net. 30 June 1931. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Olympics Statistics: Allan Jay". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Allan Jay Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  8. ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
  9. ^ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-56171-028-7.

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