Johan Harmenberg

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Competitor for Sweden
Olympic medal record
Men's Fencing
Gold	Moscow 1980	Individual epée

Johan Harmenberg (born September 8, 1954, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish epee fencer.

Harmenberg only completed two years of study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 before returning to Sweden to pursue his fencing career.[1]

1 Fencing career
2 Hall of Fame
3 Scholarship
4 Links

[edit] Fencing career

He has won eight individual and/or team epee gold medals at Olympic, World Championship, and World Cup competitions.

[edit] World Championships

He earned his World Championship titles in Individual Epee and Team Epee events at the 1977 competitions in Buenos Aires.[2]

He also won a bronze medal in Team Epee at the 1979 World Championships in Hamburg.

[edit] World Cups

Harmenberg captured three Individual Epee World Cup Championships within four years: 1977 (Bern), 1979 (Heidenheim), and 1980 (Heidenheim). He also won team titles at the 1977 and 1980 World Cups.

[edit] Olympics

At the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in Individual Epee. In three of the final matches he won by only one touch.[3] He is the only Swede to have won an individual gold medal in fencing.[4] Harmenberg was a member of the Swedish epee team as well; the team placed 5th in the team epee competition.

[edit] Hall of Fame

Harmenberg, who is Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[5]

[edit] Scholarship

Harmenberg co-authored scientific papers entitled "Fencing: Biomedical and Psychological Factors," "Comparison of different tests of fencing performance" (1991), and "Physiological and morphological characteristics of world class fencers" (1990).[6]