Norman Lewis (fencer)

Norman Lewis (December 10, 1915 – June 6, 2006) was an American Olympic épée fencer, who also competed in foil.[1]

Norman Lewis

Personal information
Born	December 10, 1915 New York City, United States
Died	June 6, 2006 (aged 90)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	épée and foil
College team	New York University
Club	Salle Santelli

Early and personal life

Lewis was born in New York City, and was Jewish.[2][3][1] He later lived in Kew Gardens, New York, and in Candlewood Lake, Connecticut.[4][5] He and his wife Eva had two daughters, Susan and Joan.[4]

Fencing career

He fenced for New York University, for whom Lewis was Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) foil champion (1935, 1936, 1937) and épée champion (1937), and his fencing club was Salle Santelli.[6][7][8]

Lewis won the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA)/AAU United States National Fencing Championship in foil in 1939, and in épée in 1948, 1949, and 1950.[9][3][10]

Lewis competed in the individual (coming in 9th, despite defeating both the Swiss silver medalist Oswald Zappelli and the Italian bronze medalist Edoardo Mangiarotti) and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[11][8] He served as captain of the US fencing team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[12]

He later served as President of the Amateur Fencers League of America from 1965–68, and as Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Games Fencing Committee.[13][8]

Lewis is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame.[8] In 1982, he was inducted into the New York University Sport Hall of Fame.[14]

References

1. "Champions All!", The Jewish Criterion, September 23, 1938
2. Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States
3. Bob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History
4. Norman Lewis Obituary - New York, NY | New York Times
5. United States Olympic Book
6. "Our Sports"
7. Facts on File Yearbook
8. Lewis, Norman – US Fencing Hall of Fame
9. Martin Harry Greenberg. The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews
10. Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
11. "Norman Lewis Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
12. Norman Lewis Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
13. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
14. SPORTS PEOPLE - Comings and Goings - NYTimes.com