Vadym Gutzeit
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| Full name | Vadim Markovich Gutzeit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 1971 Kiev, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vadim Gutzeit (also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovich Hutsayt; Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; born 6 October 1971 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer, who was team Olympic champion in 1992, and won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships. Since 4 March 2020, Huttsait is Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.[2]
He has been an international referee for the FIE since 2002. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.
Fencing career[]
Gutzeit took up fencing at the age of ten. He won the Ukrainian national championship when he was 15.
In 1988 he became USSR Junior Champion. He earned a gold medal in the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990. A year later, he won a silver medal in the same event, as well as an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the senior World Championships.[3]
He took part in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for the Unified Team at the age of 20, and won the gold medal with them.[4] He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 6th in the individual sabre event after being defeated 14–15 in the quarter-finals by Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who eventually won the competition.[5] Gutzeit took part in his third Olympiads at the 2000 Sydney Games. Seeded No. 13, he lost 10–15 in the table of 16 to Domonkos Ferjancsik of Hungary. In the team competition, Ukraine finished 6th.[6]
In 1999, he came in 11th at the 1999 World Fencing Championships. [3]
Gutzeit, who is Jewish, took part in the 2001 Maccabiah Games and won the silver medal in the individual sabre. He was defeated in the gold medal final by Sergey Sharikov of Russia.[3] Gutzeit won the gold medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, reaping revenge over Sharikov of Russia, as Ukraine also won the team sabre gold medal.[7]
Gutzeit became in 2002 an international referee in foil and sabre for the International Fencing Federation. He has since officiated in many major competitions, including the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He has also been vice-president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation since 2000, and a member of the executive committee of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine since 2004. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.
Political career[]
On 9 June 2019 Gutzeit announced he would take part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People.[8] But 3 days later he withdrew from the election.[9]
Since 4 March 2020, Huttsait is Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.[10]
See also[]
- List of select Jewish fencers
References[]
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Vadim Gutzeit". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ^ "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
- ^ a b c "Gutzeit, Vadim" Jews In Sports
- ^ "Vadym Huttsait Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
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- ^ "Gutzeit, Vadim". Jews in Sports. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ "x". Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ^ "Перша сотня партії Зеленського: без "95 кварталу", з олімпійськими чемпіонами і ЗеКомандою".
- ^ "Із першої сотні "Слуги народу" вилетіли три кандидати".
- ^ "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople
- Soviet male sabre fencers
- Ukrainian male sabre fencers
- Olympic fencers of the Unified Team
- Olympic fencers of Ukraine
- Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team
- Jewish male sabre fencers
- Maccabiah Games medalists in fencing
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Ukraine
- Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Ukraine
- Competitors at the 2001 Maccabiah Games
- Competitors at the 2005 Maccabiah Games
- Sportspeople from Kyiv
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Universiade medalists in fencing
- Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine
- Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
- Servant of the People (political party) politicians
- Ukrainian sportsperson-politicians
- Youth and sport ministers of Ukraine
- Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade