Zoran R. Tulum is a fencer and fencing coach. He began fencing at age 9. At age 19, he won the junior national championships in Yugoslavia in épée, foil, and sabre. He received a degree in architecture from the

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. He worked as a product designer on weekdays and coached fencing at night and on weekends. He was assistant fencing coach at

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from 1985–1987 and coach at

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1987–1998. He is now head fencing coach of his own studio, Zeta Fencing in

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and a saber coach for the U.S. Olympic Team. He coached Nick Bravin who competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. In 2013, three of his students were selected for the 18-member US National Junior Fencing Team. One of them,

Eli Dershwitz Eli Dershwitz ( ; born September 23, 1995) is an American left-handed saber fencer, five-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympian, and the 2023 saber World Champion. In 2014, Dershwitz won the US Men's Saber National Champio ...

, became the youngest-ever national champion in sabre, and went on to win gold medals in the Junior World Championship (2015) and twice in the Pan American Championships (2014 and 2015). In 2014, USA Fencing appointed him head coach of the U.S. Men’s Saber Team. Zeta Fencing, was ranked number one of the USFA Clubs at Cadet & Junior World Championships, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2015 with members of the club contributing 192.25 points to the US score.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tulum, Zoran Living people American male épée fencers American male foil fencers American male sabre fencers 1956 births 20th-century American sportsmen