{{Short description|Soviet fencer (born 1953)}} {{Infobox fencer | name = Alexandr Romankov | image = Aleksandr Romankov St Maur 2015 ind t142346.jpg | caption = Romankov in 2015 | birth_name = | full_name = Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov | nickname = | nationality = | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | death_date = | death_place = | country = {{URS}} | weapon = foil | hand = left-handed | height = 1.78 m | weight = 72 kg | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Country | {{URS}} }} {{Medal|Sport|Men's fencing}} {{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}} {{Medal|W|1|(0 individual)}} {{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}} {{Medal|3rd|2|(2 individual)}} {{Medal|Competition|World Championships}} {{Medal|W|10|(5 individual)}} {{Medal|RU|2|(1 individual)}} {{Medal|3rd|3|(0 individual)}} }}
'''Alexandr Anatolyevich Romankov''' ({{langx|be|Аляксандр Анатольевіч Раманькоў|Alyaksandr Anatolyevich Ramankow}}; {{langx|ru|Александр Анатольевич Романьков|Aleksandr Anatolyevich Romankov}}) is a former Belarusian fencer from the former Soviet Union, who was born on 7 November 1953 in the town of Korsakov on the island of Sakhalin (just north of Japan). He trained at Dynamo in Minsk and won a gold medal, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the three Olympic Games that he competed in between 1976 and 1988 ) .<ref name="databaseolympics">{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01 |title=Alexandr Romankov |access-date=2011-04-11 |website=databaseOlympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815221811/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROMANALE01 |archive-date=2011-08-15 }}</ref><ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417200019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aleksandr-romankov-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Alexandr Romankov |access-date=2011-04-11}}</ref>
==Achievements== ;Olympic Games *20 px Foil team (1988) *20 px Foil individual (1976) and Foil team (1980) *20 px Foil individual (1980, 1988)
;Fencing World Cup * 20px Foil (1974, 1976) * A ten-time World Champion (1977, 1983 - individual; 1981, 1989 - team; 1974, 1979, 1982 - individual and team).<ref name=CHARITY>{{cite web|url=http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html|title=Alexander Romankov|publisher=fencing-future.com|access-date=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813082244/http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/zvezdy_feh6/alexander_.html|archive-date=13 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> * A seventeen-time Champion of the USSR.<ref name=CHARITY/>
==Honours== * Awarded the title of Chevallier Feyerick by the FIE.<ref name=CHARITY/> * Has coached the National teams of Australia, Belarus, and Korea.<ref name=CHARITY/> * Featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.<ref name=CHARITY/> * Coached for a few years at FAW, the Fencing Academy of Westchester, in Westchester New York.<ref name=CHARITY/> * Known sometimes as the "Tsar of Fencing".<ref name=CHARITY/>
==See also== *Multiple medallist at the World Fencing Championships
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{EFC|00728836|Alexandr Romankov}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160927033507/http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/alexandr-romankov/results archive]) * {{Olympics.com|aleksander-romankov|Aleksander Romankov|org_id=aleksandr-romankov|org_name=Aleksandr Romankov|org_archive=20190426162646}} * {{Olympedia|name=Aleksandr Romankov}}
{{Footer Olympic Champions Fencing Team Foil Men}} {{World Champions in Men's Foil}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romankov, Alexander}} Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Soviet male fencers Category:Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union Category:Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Olympic medalists in fencing Category:Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Summer World University Games medalists in fencing Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Category:Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade Category:Left-handed fencers Category:World Fencing Championships medalists