{{Short description|British fencer (1938–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Use British English|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Richard Oldcorn | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|2|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Iver, Buckinghamshire, England | death_date = 1 June 2022 (aged 84) | death_place = Abbotsford, Australia | height = 198 cm | weight = 92 kg | sport = Fencing | event = Sabre | club = Liverpool YMCA | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Fencing}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire & Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1966 Kingston | team sabre}} | show-medals = yes }}
'''Richard Oldcorn''' (21 February 1938 – 1 June 2022) was a British international fencer. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ol/richard-oldcorn-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417115850/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ol/richard-oldcorn-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Richard Oldcorn Olympic Results |accessdate=17 December 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>
== Biography == Oldcorn was a member of the Liverpool YMCA Fencing Club.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19650510/275/0027 |title=Fencing |work=Daily Mirror |date=10 May 1965 |p=27 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref>
Oldcorn represented the England team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966/athletes|title=1966 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966|title=Kingston, Jamaica, 1966 Team|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/46555|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> He won a gold medal in the team sabre with Ralph Cooperman and John Rayden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/fencing.htm |title=Commonwealth Games Medallists - Fencing |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref>
He was last selected to fence for Great Britain at the world championships in Buenos Aires in 1977, although injury prevented his taking part. Thereafter he became team manager, first of the national sabre team then for the entire British fencing team, managing them at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Although he never won the national sabre championship (his best placing was second) from 1968 till the early 1970s he was the most successful British sabreur in international competition.<ref>The Sword magazine</ref>
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==External links== * {{Olympedia|22176}}
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