The Most Famous
FENCERS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Fencers. The pantheon dataset contains 174 Fencers, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 32nd most number of Fencers behind Netherlands and Latvia.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Fencers of all time. This list of famous Greek Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Athanasios Vouros (1801 - 2000)
With an HPI of 38.75, Athanasios Vouros is the most famous Greek Fencer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Athanasios Vouros (Greek: Αθανάσιος Βούρος) was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Athens. Vouros competed in the foil event. He placed second of four in his preliminary group after winning his match against Georgios Balakakis, losing to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and winning by forfeit against Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis. Because he had only won one actual bout, Vouros was considered to have won fourth place behind Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, who had placed second in his preliminary group but had won two bouts without forfeits. However, nowadays appears as having won also the third place and a bronze medal.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as fencers born between 1801 and 1801. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased fencers include Athanasios Vouros. As of April 2022, 1 new fencers have been added to Pantheon including Athanasios Vouros.
