Sándor Gombos

Sándor Gombos (born 4 December 1895, died 27 January 1968) was a Hungarian sabre fencer, born in Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary, who won Olympic gold in the team sabre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where the Hungarian team went undefeated. He also finished fifth in the individual sabre at those Games, winning 8 of his 11 matches. He belonged to the Nemzeti Vivo Club and in 1925 founded the Istvan Tisza Fencing Club. He was Hungarian sabre champion in 1930 and won European Championship gold in the individual sabre in 1926, 1927, 1930 and 1931 and in the team sabre in 1930 and 1931, at a time when those championships were the forerunner of the world championships. A Jewish athlete, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.