Dezso Földes
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Dr. Dezső Földes (December 30, 1880, in Miskolc, Hungary – March 27, 1950)http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:_JCjmC5Su7EJ:www.olympic-medallists.com/HUN.html+Dezs%C3%B6+F%C3%B6ldes&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=14 was a Hungarian saber fencer
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s in team saber at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm
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, where he died in 1950.
O
O is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet.The letter was derived from the Semitic `Ayin , which represented a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the Arabic letter ع called `Ayn. This Semitic letter in its original form seems to have been inspired by a...
and ö
Ö
"Ö", or "ö", is a character used in several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter O with umlaut to denote the front vowels or . In languages without umlaut, the character is also used as a "O with diaeresis" to denote a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified .- O-Umlaut...
. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.
Dr. Dezső Földes (December 30, 1880, in Miskolc, Hungary – March 27, 1950)http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:_JCjmC5Su7EJ:www.olympic-medallists.com/HUN.html+Dezs%C3%B6+F%C3%B6ldes&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=14 was a Hungarian saber fencer
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
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Olympics
Földes, won gold medalGold medal
A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...
s in team saber at the 1908 Olympics in London, and at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm
Stockholm
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Later life
Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in ClevelandCleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
, where he died in 1950.