Alexandre Lippmann (11 June 1881 – 23 February 1960) was a French Olympic champion

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fencer. He won two Olympic gold medals, as well as three other Olympic medals.

Early and personal life

Lippmann was born in Paris, France, in the

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. Through his mother, Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, he was the grandson of Alexandre Dumas and great-grandson of French writer

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, author of ''

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''. His father was Jewish.Un jour, un médaillé olympique : Alexandre Lippmann, l'escrimeur descendant d'Alexandre Dumas - ''Dictionnaire des médaillés olympiques français''
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/ref> Lippmann was also a genre painter.

Fencing career

In 1909, he won the French épée championship. He won five medals, including two gold medals, at three different Olympic Games: a team gold and an individual silver in the 1908 Olympics in London at 26 years of age, a team bronze and individual silver in the

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in Antwerp at 38 years of age, and a team gold in the

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in Paris at the age of 42. He missed out on the opportunity to fence in two other Olympic Games. This was because French fencers did not compete at the

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in Stockholm because France disagreed with the rules of the competition, and World War I caused the cancellation of what would have been the

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. Lippmann was inducted into the

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in 1984.Alexandre Lippmann
/ref> He died in 1960, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

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Early and personal life

Fencing career

See also

References

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