Alexandr Romankov

Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov is a former Belarusian foil fencer who competed for the Soviet Union, born on 7 November 1953 in Korsakov on Sakhalin island. He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won one Olympic gold, two silver and two bronze medals across the three Olympic Games he entered between 1976 and 1988. He was a ten-time world champion in the individual and team foil events and a seventeen-time champion of the USSR, and he is sometimes known as the Tsar of Fencing. After competing he coached the national teams of Australia, Belarus and Korea, and the International Fencing Federation honoured him with the title of Chevalier Feyerick.