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About Adrianus Egbert Willem de Jong
Name Adrianus Jong Died December 23, 1966 Role Olympic athlete Olympic medals Fencing at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre Similar People Nedo Nadi, Aldo Nadi, Jacques Ochs, Rudolf Cvetko, Jeno Fuchs
Adrianus Egbert Willem "Adriaan" "Arie" de Jong (born 21 June 1882 in Plantungan, Kendal Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, died 23 December 1966 in The Hague, Netherlands) was a Dutch artillery army officer who fenced at five Olympics between 1906 and 1928 and won five bronze medals. This record would not be broken by a Dutchman until shooter Eric Swinkels made his sixth Olympic appearance in 1996.
Between 1910 and 1928 he won eighteen Dutch titles; 9 using the epee; 6 using the sabre; and 3 using the foil. In 1924, he held titles in all three weapons simultaneously.
However, he had his greatest international success with the sabre, where he won the first two World Championships in 1922 and 1923, and Olympic four bronze medals in 1912, 1920, and 1924.
With the epee, 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 Sandor Posta 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 Osiier) while Posta went on to win gold.
At the age of 54, De Jong won the epee event at the Military World Championships in 1936.
After retiring from the army, De Jong became the manager of the Tampat Senang, an Indonesian restaurant in The Hague. He died in 1966.
He has a street named after him in The Hague, the Arie de Jongstraat. References Adrianus de Jong Wikipedia CC BY-SA
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Adrianus Egbert Willem de Jong's Timeline
| 1882 |
June 21, 1882
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Pelantoengan, Indonesia
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| 1909 |
1909
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Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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| 1966 |
December 23, 1966
Age 84
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's-Gravenhage, ZH, Netherlands
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