FENCERS from Spain

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Fencers of all time. This list of famous Spanish Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Stefano Cerioni (b. 1964)

With an HPI of 38.78, Stefano Cerioni is the most famous Spanish Fencer.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

Stefano Cerioni (born 24 January 1964) is an Italian foil fencer, Olympic team champion in 1984, Olympic champion in 1988 and World team champion in 1985 and 1994. He became a fencing master, then a director of foil, first for Italy, then for Russia, then again for Italy.

2. José Luis Abajo (b. 1978)

With an HPI of 33.43, José Luis Abajo is the 2nd most famous Spanish Fencer.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

José Luis Abajo Gómez (born 22 June 1978) is a Spanish épée fencer. Abajo won the silver medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after losing against France in the final. He accomplished this with his teammates Ignacio Canto, Juan Castañeda and Eduardo Sepulveda Puerto. He won the bronze medal in the Épée competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, defeating Hungarian Gábor Boczkó. Being this the first Olympic medal won by Spain in fencing, and becoming the Olympic medal number 100 (99 according to the IOC) in the history of Spain, regarding Winter and Summer Olympics. In 2013 he was inducted in the Hall of Fame of the International Fencing Federation.