Martin Lang (born May 20, 1949) is an American former foil fencer.

Early and personal life

Lang was born in

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, New York, and is Jewish."Lang, Tishman Head N.Y.U. Fencing Team,"
''The New York Times''. He attended

Martin Van Buren High School Martin Van Buren High School (MVBHS) is a public high school in Queens Village, New York. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Academics The high school is accredited by the New York State Board of Regents.< ...

in Queens, along with Steve Kaplan who also became an Olympic fencer. After graduating from NYU with a Bachelor of Science degree, he attended New York University for graduate studies. He worked 22 years in the hotel industry, and ten years in the automotive industry. Lang lives in

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. He owns his own club in

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Fencing career

Lang fenced foil for

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(class of 1972), where he attended the School of Education, and was 25‐3 for the season and finished second in the

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foil competition in 1970–71. He was co-captain of the team in 1971–72, and was an

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First Team All American in 1972."Hall of Fame"
/ref> He was 55–5 in his NYU career. He then fenced for Salle Santelli and for the

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. At the

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, Lang won the individual Foil Championship (the first American in 20 years to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games in foil), and also won a team foil silver medal.">"Athletes par excellence aid Olympics in golf game,"
''Baltimore Sun''. Lang competed in the individual and team

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events at the

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in Montreal, at 27 years of age. He won the U.S. National Foil Championship in 1978, and Lang was a five-time U.S. National Men's Foil Team Champion. Lang was inducted into the NYU Hall of Fame in 2012.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Martin 1949 births Living people American male foil fencers Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Fencers from New Jersey Olympic fencers for the United States Sportspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey NYU Violets fencers Jewish American sportspeople Jewish foil fencers Sportspeople from Queens, New York People from Spring Hill, Tennessee Sportspeople from the Nashville metropolitan area Martin Van Buren High School alumni Fencers at the 1975 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in fencing 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American sportsmen

Early and personal life

Fencing career

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