ALADáR GEREVICH

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'Aladár Gerevich' (born 16 March, 1910 in Jászberény – died 14 May, 1991 in Budapest) was a fencer from Hungary, who won medals in sabre in six Olympics. He's the only athlete to do so, and the only athlete to win the same event six times (despite two games passed because of the Second World War). The War could not interfere with perhaps his most impressive record, however; he won gold medals in 1932 and 1960, 28 years apart. No other athlete has won even bronze medals separated by 28 years.
Gerevich's wife, Erna Bogen (also known as Erna Bogathy), his son, Pal Gerevich, and his father-in-law, Albert Bogen, all received Olympic medals in fencing.
In the Hungarian Olympic trials for the 1960 Rome Olypics, the fencing committee told Gerevich that he was too old to compete. He silenced them by challenging the entire sabre team to individual matches and winning every match. He missed the finals of the 1960 Olympic individual sabre event, and a possible individual gold medal, by a single stroke.