Martin Lang (fencer)

Martin Lang (born May 20, 1949) is an American Olympic foil fencer.

Martin Lang
Personal information
Born (1949-05-20) May 20, 1949
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Height6-0 (183 cm)
Weight165 lb (75 kg)
Sport
CountryUSA
SportFencing
Event(s)Foil
College teamNew York University
ClubMusic City Fencing Club[1]
Achievements and titles
Regional finals1975 Pan American Foil Champion
National finals1978 US Foil Champion
Olympic finals1976 Olympic Fencing Team

Early and personal life

Lang was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, later lived in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York, and is Jewish.[2][3] He attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, along with Steve Kaplan who also became an Olympic fencer.[2][4] After graduating from NYU with a Bachelor of Science degree, he attended New York University for graduate studies.[5]

He worked 22 years in the hotel industry, and ten years in the automotive industry.[5] Lang lives in Spring Hill, Tennessee.[5] He currently works as a fencing coach at Music City Fencing Club in Nashville, Tennessee.[1]

Fencing career

Lang fenced foil for New York University (class of 1972), where he attended the School of Education, and was 25‐3 for the season and finished second in the IFA foil competition in 1970-71.[2][5] He was co-captain of the team in 1971-72, and was an NCAA First Team All American in 1972.[6][2] He was 55-5 in his NYU career.[5] He then fenced for Salle Santelli and for the New York Athletic Club.[7][8][9]

At the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Lang won the individual Foil Championship (the first American in 20 years to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games in foil), and also won a team foil silver medal.[10][5][11]

Lang competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, at 27 years of age.[7]

He won the U.S. National Foil Championship in 1978, and Lang was a five-time U.S. National Men’s Foil Team Champion.[6] Lang was inducted into the NYU Hall of Fame in 2012.[6]

References
  1. "Club Staff | Music City Fencing Club"
  2. "Lang, Tishman Head N.Y.U. Fencing Team," The New York Times.
  3. "Jews in Sports from A to M" Encyclopedia Judaica.
  4. Tara Ryazansky. "SPORTS CORNER: JCM; En Garde Like the cobra the fencer must be able to strike so the touch is felt before it is seen -Fencer Aldo Nadi," Archived February 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Hudson Reporter.
  5. ""DW Automotive's Marty Lang Inducted into NYU Hall of Fame"". Archived from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  6. "Hall of Fame"
  7. "Martin Lang Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  8. Ann Golenpaul. Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook.
  9. Best Sports Stories
  10. "Lang, Marty," Museum Of American Fencing.
  11. "Athletes par excellence aid Olympics in golf game," Baltimore Sun.
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