Gilbert Eisner is an American former

épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contain ...

fencer. Eisner is Jewish, and was a commercial artist.

Fencing career

A resident of

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, New York, he fenced for Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York.Thinking Back on the Stuyvesant Fencing Team
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épée championship while fencing for

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. He was undefeated in épée in three years at NYU, and graduated in 1961. He won the épée title at the 1962 U.S. Fencing Championships in New York. In 1963, he won a gold medal in team épée for the United States at the

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. He is a member of the NYU Athletics Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1987.

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Living people American male épée fencers NYU Violets fencers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American artists Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Jewish male épée fencers Jewish American sportspeople Forest Hills High School (New York) alumni Fencers at the 1963 Pan American Games 21st-century American Jews Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games {{US-fencing-bio-stub

Fencing career

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