Henry Kolowrat (; August 25, 1933 – March 16, 2021) was an American fencer. He was born in Prague into a noble

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. He moved with his parents to the United States in 1948 after the communist coup d'état in Czechoslovakia. He became a U.S. citizen in 1956. He competed in the team

épée The (, ; ), also rendered as 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 contains a ...

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1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

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* 1933 births 2021 deaths American male épée fencers Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Fencers from Prague Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in fencing Fencers at the 1959 Pan American Games Habsburg Bohemian nobility American people of Czech descent 20th-century American sportsmen 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-fencing-bio-stub

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