Allan Jay

Allan Louis Neville Jay, born on 30 June 1931 in London and died on 5 March 2023, was a British foil and épée fencer who competed at five Olympic Games. He won silver medals in individual and team épée at the 1960 Rome Olympics, was Great Britain's flag bearer at the 1964 Games, and in 1959 became the first British world champion in foil, also winning silver in individual épée that year and so becoming the last fencer to win two individual medals at one World Championships. He was five times British champion, won gold medals at the Maccabiah Games of 1950, 1953 and 1957 and double gold in foil at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, studied law at Oxford and worked as a solicitor, and was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article.