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VRI Fencing Club
Home of Australian Fencing
Country
Australia
Established
1949
Affiliation
Fencing Victoria
Australian Fencing Federation
Rating
Location
141 Burnley Street, Richmond
Pistes
9
Coaches
Gerry Adams
Guest Coaches:
Sergei Golubitsky
Enrico d' Cioli
Olympians
35
Olympiads
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
Commonwealth Games
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Commonwealth Fencing Championships
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
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VRI Fencing Club located near the heart of Melbourne at 141 Burnley Street Richmond, Victoria is an Australian fencing club distinguished as being the only club in any Olympic sport to have continuously produced athletes for every Olympiad between 1952 and 2008.
The club was founded a week after the International Olympic Committee awarded Melbourne the 15th Olympiad on 28 April 1949. Formed by employees of the Victorian Railways, VRI Fencing Club was funded, equipped and accommodated under the auspice of the Victorian Railways Institute, an organisation dedicated to providing self-learning, social and sport opportunities for railway employees. In addition to encouraging public participation in the sport of fencing, the club sought to train and develop competitive athletes in three weapons to represent Australia at the Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics.
The club produced five athletes for the Melbourne Olympiad. Overall it has produced 35 athletes for 15 consecutive Olympiads, including most recently, three athletes for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. VRI Fencing Club produced a representative Australian athlete for every Olympiad since Australia first competed in fencing at Helsinki in 1952 up to Beijing in 2008. Overall the club has produced 48 per cent of Australia's total number of Olympic fencers.
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coach at the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. On 10 October 2009 in recognition of a significant international fencing career, outstanding personal contribution...
Summer Olympics. She was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. "Christine McDougall Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived...
Summer Olympics. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. "Zoltan Okalyi Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from...
Summer Olympics. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. 95th Annual Report of the Victorian Olympic Council - V "Leslie Fadgyas...
Summer Olympics. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. "Leslie Kovacs Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from...
events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was a founding member of the VRIFencingClub in May 1949, a week after the IOC awarded Melbourne the 15th Olympiad...
Olympic Games. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. Ivan Lund competed in four Olympic Games. In 1952 in Helsinki, he...
Summer Olympics. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRIFencingClub. "Alex Martonffy". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 December...
business and community sports organisations, including Klim Swim, the VRIFencingClub and the Indigenous Youth Education Centre known as the Korin Gamaji...
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