Dezső Földes

The native form of this personal name is Földes Dezső. This article uses the Western name order.

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Hungary
Men's Fencing
Gold	London 1908	Team sabre
Gold	Stockholm 1912	Team sabre

The title of this article contains the characters ő and ö. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.

Dr. Dezső Földes (December 30, 1880, in Miskolc, Hungary – March 27, 1950)[2] was a Hungarian saber fencer.[3][4] He was Jewish.^[1]

Olympics

Földes, won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.[5]

Later life

Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950.

See also

• List of select Jewish fencers

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Olympic record
• Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. ISBN 1574882848. http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA81&lpg=RA1-PA81&dq=dezs%C3%B6+f%C3%B6ldes&source=web&ots=37b0EtdD04&sig=7gd0JH4xL6FE5iUUY9e4vNdMPD8#PRA1-PA54,M1. 
• Jews in Sports bio
• List of Jewish Olympic Medalists
• Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime. The Complete Book of the Olympics (2008 ed.). Great Britain: Aurum Press. p. 616. ISBN 978-1-84513-330-6. 

Persondata
Name	Foldes, Dezso
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 30, 1880
Place of birth	Miskolc
Date of death	March 27, 1950
Place of death