{{short description|American fencer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Abram Cohen | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|10|25}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|2|2|1924|10|25}} | death_place = Fishkill, New York, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage |Simone Cohen |1959|2016}} | height = {{convert|6|ft|2.5|in|cm|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|198|lb|kg}} | country = United States | sport = Fencing | event = Épée, foil, and sabre | collegeteam = CCNY | club = Fencers Club | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | worlds = 1955 Pan American Games team épée (2nd place) | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = 1956 Summer Olympics Round One }}

'''Abram''' "'''Abe'''" '''Dreyer''' '''Cohen''' (October 25, 1924 &ndash; February 2, 2016) was an American Olympic foil, épée, and sabre fencer.<ref name="death">{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=abram-cohen&pid=177874094 |title=Abram Cohen Obituary |accessdate=February 28, 2016|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>Bob Wechsler. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=abram+cohen+jewish+fencer&pg=PA166 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=abram+cohen+jewish+fencer ''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was Jewish.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 /> His brother Herb Cohen competed at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel, won the NCAA foil championship in 1961–62, won a bronze medal in individual foil and a gold medal with the US foil team at the 1963 Pan American Games, was Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) foil champion in 1964, and fenced individual and team foil for the United States in the 1964 Summer Olympics.<ref name="sports-reference" />

==Fencing career== He fenced for the Fencers Club in New York.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/06/04/archives/team-honors-go-to-fencers-club-margolis-axelrod-abram-cohen-help.html TEAM HONORS GO TO FENCERS CLUB - Margolis, Axelrod, Abram Cohen Help Beat N.Y.A.C. - NYTimes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In college, in 1948 he was a member of the NCAA Champion CCNY team.<ref name=autogenerated3>[http://usfencinghalloffame.com/wp/cohen-abram/ Cohen, Abram – US Fencing Hall of Fame<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

In 1955 and 1956 he won the épée AAU/Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) United States National Fencing Championship.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated4>Martin Harry Greenberg. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ&q=abram+cohen+jewish+fencer ''The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name="sports-reference" /><ref>[https://mobile.nytimes.com/1956/06/15/archives/cohen-is-winner-in-epee-fenceoff-beats-andre-of-us-navy-by-53-to.html COHEN IS WINNER IN EPEE FENCE-OFF; Beats Andre of U.S. Navy by 5-3 to Keep National Title -Mrs. Romary Victor THE FINAL STANDINGS - NYTimes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

He won the silver medal in the 1955 Pan American Games team épée with Dick Dyer, Skip Shurtz, and Harold Goldsmith.<ref name=autogenerated4 />

Cohen competed in the team épée and sabre events at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/abe-cohen-1.html |title=Abe Cohen |accessdate=October 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203012141/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/abe-cohen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref>

He was the AFLA President's 3-Weapon Champion in 1955 and 1956 and the winner of the 1957 and 1958 Giorgio Santelli Masters’ Sabre.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

He is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame (inducted in 2005), and the CCNY Athletic Hall of Fame (inducted in 1971).<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=177874094 ABRAM COHEN Obituary - New York, NY | New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==See also== * List of USFA Division I National Champions *List of USFA Hall of Fame members

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