Robert Blum (fencer)
Personal information | |
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Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | November 24, 1928
Sport | |
Country | United States |
Sport | Fencing |
Event(s) | sabre |
College team | Trinity College and Columbia University |
Club | Salle Santelli and the Fencers Club |
Robert Blum (born November 24, 1928) is an American and former Olympic fencer.
Early and personal life[]
Blum was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is Jewish.[1][2] He attended Columbia Law School,[3] and practiced law for 50 years.[4] His wife was Barbara Blum, who became a high-ranking social services official.[5] Blum became an aide to John Lindsay, first in Congress and then at City Hall in New York City, and later was one of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s NYS Assistant Attorneys General.[5][6]
Fencing career[]
Blum attended and fenced first as an All American for Trinity College, and then for Columbia University.[6][1][7] He also fenced for Salle Santelli and the Fencers Club in New York, winning the US Saber Team title 10 times with the two clubs, combined.[8][9][6] He was a member of the U.S. sabre team that won the gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games.[1]
He was the first American to make the World Championship individual saber finals, when he did that at the 1958 World Fencing Championships.[6] Blum competed on behalf of the United States in the team sabre events at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[10] He was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame in 2010.[11]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Blum, Bob". Jews In Sports.
- ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
- ^ "New York State Unified Court System - Attorney Search"
- ^ "Robert Blum Bio, Stats, and Results," Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
- ^ a b "Barbara Blum, Who Rescued Abused Willowbrook Residents, Dies at 82," The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d "Blum, Robert," Museum Of American Fencing.
- ^ "Fencers Trim Rutgers, 24-3; Mermen Lose, 59-27, to Navy Capture Fourteen Of Fifteen Matches To Clinch Victory", Columbia Daily Spectator, December 16, 1957.
- ^ The New International Year Book
- ^ The New York Times Sports Almanac
- ^ "Robert Blum Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Thanks and Credits", Museum Of American Fencing.
External links[]
- Robert Blum at Olympedia
- 1928 births
- Living people
- American male sabre fencers
- Olympic fencers of the United States
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Pittsburgh
- Pan American Games medalists in fencing
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Columbia University alumni
- New York Law School alumni
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Jewish male sabre fencers
- Fencers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American Jews