The Most Famous
FENCERS from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Fencers. The pantheon dataset contains 174 Fencers, 1 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 40th most number of Fencers behind Algeria and Uzbekistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Fencers of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Aliaksandr Buikevich (1984 - )
With an HPI of 20.91, Aliaksandr Buikevich is the most famous Belarusian Fencer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Aliaksandr Mikalayevich Buikevich (Belarusian: Аляксандар Мікалаевіч Буйкевіч, Russian: Александр микалаевич Буйкевич; born 19 November 1984) is a Belarusian sabre fencer, European champion in 2008 and team silver medallist at the 2011 World Championships in Catania. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals in the individual sabre, losing to Romania's Mihai Covaliu, while the Belarusian sabre team also reached the quarter-finals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's sabre, but was defeated in the table of 16 by Romania's Rareș Dumitrescu. The Belarusian team again reached the quarter-finals. Buikevich qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as the only Belarusian fencer. In men's sabre in the table of 32 he defeated Joseph Polossifakis of Canada. He could not advance to the quarter-finals as in the table of 16 he lost to the eventual winner Áron Szilágyi of Hungary, who claimed his second consecutive gold medal at the Olympics individual men's sabre. Buikevich finished 12th in the event.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as fencers born between 1984 and 1984. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living fencers include Aliaksandr Buikevich. As of April 2022, 1 new fencers have been added to Pantheon including Aliaksandr Buikevich.
