Viktor Krovopuskov

Viktor Alekseyevich Krovopuskov, born on 29 September 1948 in Moscow, is a retired sabre fencer who competed for the Soviet Union. He began fencing at thirteen at the Children and Youth Sport School in Moscow under his first trainer Igor Chernyshev, joined the Armed Forces Sports Society in 1967 and belonged to the national team from 1973 to 1986. At the 1976 Olympics he won gold in both the individual and team sabre, and he repeated that double at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was individual world champion twice, in 1978 and 1982, and team world champion five times, won the sabre World Cup in 1976 and 1979 and in 1979 was named Best Sabre Fencer of the World by the International Fencing Federation.