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Alexandre Lippmann

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Alexandre Lippmann
BERJAYA
Lippmann in 1920
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born(1881-06-11)11 June 1881
Paris, France
Died23 February 1960(1960-02-23) (aged 78)
Paris, France
Sport
CountryFrance
SportFencing
Event
Épée
ClubCercle de l'Escrime de Paris
Medal record
Men's fencing
Representing BERJAYA France
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1908 LondonÉpée, team[1]
Silver medal – second place1908 LondonÉpée, individual
Silver medal – second place1920 AntwerpÉpée, individual
Bronze medal – third place1920 AntwerpÉpée, team
Gold medal – first place1924 ParisÉpée, team

Alexandre Lippmann (11 June 1881 – 23 February 1960) was a French Olympic champion épée fencer. He won two Olympic gold medals, as well as three other Olympic medals.[2]

Early and personal life

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Lippmann was born in Paris, France, in the 17th arrondissement. Through his mother, Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, he was the grandson of Alexandre Dumas fils and great-grandson of French writer Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers.[3][4] His father was Jewish.[5][6][7][8] Lippmann was also a genre painter.[3]

Fencing career

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In 1909, Lippmann won the French épée championship.[3]

He won five medals, including two gold medals, at three different Olympic Games: a team gold and an individual silver in the 1908 Olympics in London at 26 years of age, a team bronze and individual silver in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp at 38 years of age, and a team gold in the 1924 Olympics in Paris at the age of 42.[1][3][9][10][6][11]

Lippmann missed out on the opportunity to fence in the 1912 and 1916 Olympic Games; French fencers did not compete at the former in Stockholm because France disagreed with the rules of the competition, and the latter were cancelled due to World War I.[11][12][13]

Death and legacy

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Lippmann died in 1960 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.[5] He was posthumously inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.[9][14][15][16][17][18]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Alexandre LIPPMANN". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Alexandre Lippmann". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Alexandre Lippmann Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Three Musketeers: A Study of the Dumas Family - André Maurois
  5. 1 2 "Un jour, un médaillé olympique : Alexandre Lippmann, l'escrimeur descendant d'Alexandre Dumas - Dictionnaire des médaillés olympiques français". Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  6. 1 2 The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Joseph M. Siegman
  7. ↑ Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
  8. ↑ Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities - Paul Yogi Mayer
  9. 1 2 "Alexandre Lippmann". jewishsports.net. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Bernard Postal; Jesse Silver; Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports. Bloch Publishing Company.
  11. 1 2 "Lippman, Alexandre: Jews In Sports". Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  12. ↑ Fencing at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
  13. ↑ The 1912 Stockholm Olympics: Essays on the Competitions, the People, the City
  14. ↑ "Jews in the Olympics". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 6 August 1984. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  15. ↑ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 206–. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8.
  16. ↑ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-56171-028-7.
  17. ↑ Paul Yogi Mayer (1 March 2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 978-0-85303-451-3.
  18. ↑ "Alexandre Lippmann". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
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