Vilmoș Szabo
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| Born | 30 December 1964 Brașov, Romania |
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Vilmoș Szabo (Hungarian: Vilmos Szabó, born 30 December 1964) is a Romanian fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
He is an ethnic Hungarian[3] and he married Olympic foil medallist Reka Zsofia Lazăr. They moved to Germany in 1993 and became fencing coaches at TSV Bayer Dormagen. Since 2008 Vilmoș Szabo coaches the German national sabre team. Under his direction, Nicolas Limbach earned a gold medal in the 2009 World Championships and Germany won the first World team gold medal in their history in the 2014 World Championships.
Szabo and his wife have two sons, Matyas and Marc. Matyas is a sabre fencer and member of the German national team.
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- Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Sportspeople from Brașov
- Romanian people of Hungarian descent
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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