Norman Lewis (December 10, 1915 – June 6, 2006) was an American Olympic épée fencer, who also competed in foil."Champions All!" , The Jewish Criterion, September 23, 1938
Early and personal life Lewis was born in New York City, and was Jewish.Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United StatesBob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History He later lived in Kew Gardens, New York, and on Candlewood Lake in Connecticut.Norman Lewis Obituary - New York, NY | New York TimesUnited States Olympic Book He and his wife Eva had two daughters, Susan and Joan.
Fencing career Lewis fenced for New York University, for whom Lewis was Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) foil champion (1935, 1936, 1937) and épée champion (1937), and his fencing club was Salle Santelli."Our Sports"Facts on File YearbookLewis, Norman – US Fencing Hall of Fame
He won the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA)/AAU United States National Fencing Championship in foil in 1939, and in épée in 1948, 1949, and 1950.Martin Harry Greenberg. The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished JewsBernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
Lewis competed in the individual (coming in 9th, despite defeating both the Swiss silver medalist Oswald Zappelli and the Italian bronze medalist Edoardo Mangiarotti) and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He served as captain of the US fencing team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Norman Lewis Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
He later served as President of the Amateur Fencers League of America from 1965 to 1968, and as Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Games Fencing Committee.Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
Lewis is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame. In 1982, he was inducted into the New York University Sport Hall of Fame.SPORTS PEOPLE - Comings and Goings - NYTimes.com
See also List of USFA Division I National Champions List of USFA Hall of Fame members
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