Bill Hoskyns

Henry William Furse "Bill" Hoskyns MBE (19 March 1931 – 4 August 2013) was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games.,[2]

Bill Hoskyns
Personal information
Born(1931-03-19)19 March 1931
London, England
Died4 August 2013(2013-08-04) (aged 82)[1]
Sport
SportFencing
Medal record
Men's fencing
Representing  United Kingdom
Olympic Games
1960 Rome Team épée
1964 Tokyo Individual épée
Representing  England
British Empire & Commonwealth Games
1958 Cardiffépée individual
1958 Cardiffépée team
1958 Cardiffsabre individual
1958 Cardiffsabre team
1966 Kingstonépée individual
1966 Kingstonépée team
1966 Kingstonfoil team
1966 Kingstonfoil individual
1970 Edinburghépée individual
1970 Edinburghépée team

Fencing career

He won two silver medals in 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games.[3] No British fencer has won an Olympic medal since. He was born in London. He competed with all three weapons (doing so in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics) but he was especially effective at Épée, where he was 1958 World Champion. He is one of only five fencers to compete in at least six Olympic Games.

He was eight times British champion, winning at least once at each weapon - a feat no one, including his great rival, Allan Jay, ever matched. During the time (1950 to 1970) that fencing was a sport at the Commonwealth Games, Hoskyns won nine gold (four individual) and one silver medal. Individually, he won gold in both épée and sabre in 1958, gold in épée and silver in foil 1966, gold in Épée in 1970.[4][5][6]

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he was part of the British silver-medal winning épée team. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Hoskyns won silver in the épée, losing to Soviet fencer Grigory Kriss in the final.

See also

References
  1. "Somerset's Olympic 'gentleman sportsman' Henry 'Bill' Hoskyns dies aged 82". Western Daily Press. Local World. 7 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  2. "Bill Hoskyns Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
  3. "Olympics Statistics: Bill Hoskyns". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
  4. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. "1970 Athletes". Team England.
  6. "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.


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