trained amongst other German champions Matthias Behr and Alexander Pusch. He then left for the United States and settled down first in Tucson, Arizona, where he taught Fencing at Pima Community College. He met and married Cinda Gibson, with the hope of gaining citizenship, and they had a son, Jeffrey. They were divorced, and he then moved to San Francisco, where he opened his own fencing school. He also coached in Venezuela before opening another school, this time in Brazil. He remarried and had four children. In 1996 he decided to return to Romania, where his name had been reinstated in historical records after the Revolution, in the hope that his coaching experience abroad would be rewarded. He received the grade of officer in the Order For Merit, but he did not get any job offer. He also had to retire his candidacy to the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee. Disappointed, he went back to Brazil, where he died in 2006. Awards Sport Merit, First Class Honored Sports Master ("Maestru emerit al sportului") References 1942 births 2006 deaths Romanian male fencers Romanian foil fencers Olympic fencers of Romania Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Romanian defectors Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Sportspeople from Timișoara