The Most Famous
FENCERS from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Fencers. The pantheon dataset contains 349 Fencers, 1 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 27th most number of Fencers behind Estonia, and French Guiana.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Fencers of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Adrianus de Jong (1882 - 1966)
With an HPI of 46.07, Adrianus de Jong is the most famous Indonesian Fencer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Adrianus Egbert Willem "Adriaan" "Arie" de Jong (21 June 1882 – 23 December 1966) was a fencer who competed at five Olympic Games. However, he had his greatest international success with the sabre, where he won the first two World Championships in 1922 and 1923. With the épée, he won bronze at the 1912 Olympics and silver at the 1922 world championships. During the individual sabre event at the 1924 Olympics, he reached the semi-finals against Hungarian Sándor Pósta and was leading by three hits when an audience member fell through his chair. This distracted the jury, who failed to see De Jong's decisive hit. Disrupted, De Jong lost the bout. De Jong eventually finished fifth (one ahead of eventual seven-time Danish Olympian Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier) while Pósta went on to win gold.
2. Nadia Ben Azizi (b. 2002)
With an HPI of 0.00, Nadia Ben Azizi is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Fencer. Her biography has been translated into different languages.
Nadia Ben Azizi (born 9 July 2002) is a Tunisian fencer. She competed in the women's sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in the women's team sabre event.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indonesian fencers born between 1882 and 2002. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indonesian fencers include Nadia Ben Azizi. The most famous deceased Indonesian fencers include Adrianus de Jong. As of April 2024, 1 new Indonesian fencers have been added to Pantheon including Nadia Ben Azizi.
