Eugène-Henri Gravelotte

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center ! colspan="3" | Men's fencing

|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan="3" class="adr" | Competitor for France

|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1896 Athens || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Foil Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (6 February 1876 in Paris – 23 August 1939) was a French fencer. He was the first modern Olympic champion in foil, winning the event at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.^[1]

Gravelotte was undefeated in his group for the preliminary round, defeating Greek fencers Athanasios Vouros, Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis, and Georgios Balakakis in succession. He then faced fellow Frenchman Henri Callot, who had gone undefeated in the other group, in the final. Gravelotte won that match 3-2.

References[]

↑ "Eugène Henry Gravelotte Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/eugene-henry-gravelotte-1.html. Retrieved 2011-09-18.

All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at Eugène-Henri Gravelotte and the edit history here.

[sports-reference-1] "Eugène Henry Gravelotte Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/eugene-henry-gravelotte-1.html. Retrieved 2011-09-18.

[1]