The Most Famous
FENCERS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Fencers. The pantheon dataset contains 174 Fencers, 1 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 30th most number of Fencers behind Argentina and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Fencers of all time. This list of famous Dutch Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jetze Doorman (1881 - 1931)
With an HPI of 43.82, Jetze Doorman is the most famous Dutch Fencer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Jetze Doorman (2 July 1881 – 28 February 1931) was a Dutch fencer. He won four Olympic bronze medals. He also competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Doorman won the European Champion in Paris in 1907. This victory caused that the Netherlands had to organize the championships the next year and due to that the Dutch national fencing association, now called "Koninklijke Nederlandse Algemene Schermbond" (KNAS) was established.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as fencers born between 1881 and 1881. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased fencers include Jetze Doorman. As of April 2022, 1 new fencers have been added to Pantheon including Jetze Doorman.
