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Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE (30 June 1931 – 5 March 2023) was a British five-time-Olympian
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and
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fencer, and world champion.


Early life

Jay was born in London, England, and was Jewish. His father died fighting in World War II in 1943. He attended Cheltenham College from 1944 to 1948. He spent much of his childhood in Australia. After 1950 he returned to Britain to study law at the
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, and later worked as a
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while serving as fencing official with the
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. Jay and his wife Carole have two children.


Fencing career

Jay competed internationally in 1950 for Australia. He was a five times British champion winning five titles at the British Fencing Championships, épée champion in 1952, 1959, 1960, and 1961, and foil champion in 1963. Jay competed in five Olympics in both épée and foil, winning
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s at the 1960 Rome Olympics in individual and team épée. He was Great Britain's flag bearer in the 1964 Olympic Games. At the World Fencing Championships, Jay won a bronze medal in team foil in 1955, a bronze medal in individual foil in 1957, and a gold medal in individual foil while also winning a silver medal in individual épée in 1959, becoming the first British world champion in foil and the last fencer to win two individual medals in one year. Jay won a gold medal in epee at the 1950 Maccabiah Games. He won three gold medals while fencing both foil and épée (where he won the gold medal in 1953, defeating American Ralph Goldstein in the final) at each of the 1953 Maccabiah Games and the 1957 Maccabiah Games. He is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, having been elected in 1985.


Death

Jay died from
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on 5 March 2023, at the age of 91.


See also

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List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 950 athletes (648 men and 302 women) have participated in at least five Olympics from 1896 Summer Olympics ...
* List of select Jewish fencers * List of Jewish Olympic medalists


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Commonwealth Games medalsJews in Sports bioJewish Sports Legends bio
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