Gilbert Eisner

{{short description|American fencer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox fencer | name = Gilbert Eisner | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = | country = {{USA}} | formercountry = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | residence = Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York | training = | weapon = épée | hand = | height =  | weight =  | natlteam = | natlcoach = | club = New York University | headcoach = | assistcoach = | formercoach = | perscoach = | retired = | fieranking =  | domesticranking =  | medaltemplates =  }} '''Gilbert Eisner''' is an American former épée fencer.<ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&q=Gilbert+Eisner+epee&pg=PA189 |title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History |author=Bob Wechsler |access-date=October 28, 2013|isbn=9780881259698 |year=2008 |publisher=KTAV Publishing House }}</ref>

Eisner is Jewish, and was a commercial artist.<ref name="google1"/><ref name="nytimes1"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofje00post |url-access=registration |quote=Gilbert Eisner epee. |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports |publisher=Bloch Publishing Company |author1=Bernard Postal |author2=Jesse Silver |author3=Roy Silver |access-date=October 28, 2013|year=1965 }}</ref>

==Fencing career== A resident of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, he fenced for Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205354/http://www.ourstrongband.org/activities/sports/fencing_thinkback.html Thinking Back on the Stuyvesant Fencing Team]}}</ref><ref name="google1"/><ref name="nytimes1"/> In 1960, he won the NCAA épée championship while fencing for New York University.<ref name="google1"/> He was undefeated in épée in three years at NYU, and graduated in 1961.<ref name="gonyuathletics1">{{cite web|url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=92&path=&kiosk= |title=NYU Athletics - Hall of Fame |publisher=Gonyuathletics.com |access-date=October 28, 2013}}</ref>

He won the épée title at the 1962 U.S. Fencing Championships in New York.<ref name="google1"/><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite web|last=Werden |first=Lincoln A. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/04/archives/eisner-captures-title-in-fencing-former-nyu-star-takes-us-epee.html |title=EISNER CAPTURES TITLE IN FENCING - Former N.Y.U. Star Takes U.S. Epee Championship Wins Fence-Off Richards Finishes Second |work=The New York Times |date=July 4, 1962 |access-date=October 28, 2013}}</ref> In 1963, he won a gold medal in team épée for the United States at the 1963 Pan American Games.<ref name="google1"/>

He is a member of the NYU Athletics Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1987.<ref name="gonyuathletics1"/>

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