Alexandr Romankov

Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov (Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў; Александр Анатольевич Романьков) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988 His student Amir Khakimov in Uzbekistan Federation Of Fencing is also a champion there and has a total of 40 medals (31 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze).

Achievements

 * Olympic Games
 * Gold medal.svg Foil team (1988)
 * Silver medal.svg Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980)
 * Bronze medal.svg Foil individual (1980, 1988)


 * Fencing World Cup
 * Simple gold cup.svg Foil (1974, 1976)
 * A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).
 * A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.

Honours

 * Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.
 * Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.
 * Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.
 * Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.
 * Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".