{{Short description|French fencer (1931–2021)}} {{Infobox fencer | name = Yves Dreyfus | image = Yves-dreyfus.jpg | caption = Yves Dreyfus (1963) | birth_name = | fullname = Yves Jean Jacques Dreyfus<ref name=Geneastar>{{cite web|url=https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/dreyfusyves/yves-dreyfus0 |title=Family Tree of Yves Dreyfus |work=Geneastar |accessdate=27 July 2023}}</ref> | nickname = aka Yves Doucet | nationality = French | birth_date = {{birth date|1931|5|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Clermont-Ferrand, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|12|16|1931|5|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Ceyrat, Puy-de-Dôme France | height = 179 cm | weight = 67 kg (Olympics) | website = | weapon = épée | hand = left-handed | collegeteam = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's fencing}} {{MedalCountry | {{FRA}} }} {{MedalSport | Men's fencing}}<ref name="databaseolympics">{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DREYFYVE01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Yves Dreyfus |access-date=2010-10-16 |work=databaseolympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928042441/http://databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DREYFYVE01 |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}</ref> {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1956 Melbourne | Epee team}} {{MedalBronze| 1964 Tokyo | Epee team}} {{MedalCompetition|Maccabiah Games}} {{MedalGold|1961 Israel|Individual Epee}} {{MedalGold|1977 Israel|Individual Epee}} {{MedalGold|1977 Israel|Team Epee}} {{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}} {{MedalGold|1963 Naples|Individual épée}} | show-medals = yes }}
'''Yves Dreyfus''' (17 May 1931 – 16 December 2021) was a French epee fencer who won two bronze medals as part of the French Olympic épée team, one in 1956 and one in 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/yves-dreyfus-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162637/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/yves-dreyfus-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Yves Dreyfus Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at |publisher=Sports-reference.com |access-date=April 29, 2010}}</ref>
==Life and career== Dreyfus was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, to Raoul Andre Dreyfus and Nelly Caroline Haas on May 17, 1931, and was Jewish.<ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/16174910/yves_dreyfus/ Yves Dreyfus - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162637/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/yves-dreyfus-1.html Yves Dreyfus Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=%22Yves+Dreyfus%22&pg=PA334 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History'' - Bob Wechsler<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Yves+Dreyfus%22 ''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports'' - Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HXuBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Yves+Dreyfus%22 ''Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities'' - Paul Yogi Mayer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He survived the Nazi occupation of France as a child despite being Jewish by taking the name Yves Doucet. In 1955, he was married to Marie Lise Levy.<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://lepasdoiseau.fr/epeiste/ "Yves Dreyfus et escrime"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=Geneastar/>
===Olympics=== Dreyfus was a three-time Olympian for France and won two bronze medals in épée, one in 1956 and one in 1964, competing well but not medaling in 1960.<ref>[https://www.olympic.org/yves-dreyfus Yves DREYFUS - Olympic Fencing | France<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
====1956==== At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne at the age of 25 he won a bronze medal in team épée.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> The French Team defeated Great Britain, but lost to Hungary and Italy.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
====1960==== Though making a good showing, at the 1960 Olympics in Rome at the age of 29 he came in 6th in individual épée but was eliminated in the final round, though he survived the first, and second rounds, as well as the quarter finals, semi-finals and finals. Italian Giuseppe Delfino took the gold in epee, and Alan Jay of Britain the silver. American Albert Axelrod, another Jewish competitor but in Foil, won the bronze in individual competition that year. Dreyfus tied for 9th with the French épée team, putting him out of medal contention.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=Olympedia/>
====1964==== At the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo at the age of 33 he fenced in the individual épée and won a bronze medal in the team épée.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&dq=Yves+Dreyfus&pg=RA3-PA100 ''Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The French epee team defeated Germany in the Quarter Finals, but lost to Hungary 9-3 in the semi-finals. 1960's fencing power Hungary took the team gold with frequent rival Italy the silver.<ref name=1964Olympics>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/FEN/mens-epee-team.html |title=Fencing: 1960 Olympic Results - Men's team épée |access-date=2010-12-08 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909112155/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/FEN/mens-epee-team.html |archive-date=2010-09-09 }}</ref>
===World championships=== He took an individual bronze in the 1954 World Championships in Luxembourg, taking a total of nine medals in those games.<ref name=Olympedia/> In 1962, he took a bronze individual medal in the World Championships in Buenos Aires.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} In July 1963, he took a silver medal in the individual épée competition at World Championships at Gdansk, Poland, narrowly defeating Couram Kostava of Russia. At only 19, Romand Locert of Austria won the individual epee gold.<ref>"Wins Fencing Title", ''The Sault Star'', Sault, St. Marie, Ontario, pg. 16, 25 July 1963</ref><ref>"Fencing, Austrian Takes Gold Medal", ''The Daily Telegraph'', London, Greater London, England, pg. 9, 25 July 1963</ref>
He took team medals in the World Championships, fencing in épée, securing Gold in 1962, 1965, and 1966, and taking silver in 1961, 1963 and 1967.<ref name=Olympedia/> In 1965 at the Paris Worlds, he defeated Henry Hoskyns of Great Britain in the final epee match to help lead his team to the gold, with the British team taking the silver, and the Russian team the bronze.<ref>"French Down English For Epee Crown", ''Democrat and Chronicle'', Rochester, New York, pg. 156, 11 July 1965</ref>
===Mediterranean Games, French nationals=== He won a gold medal at the 1963 Mediterranean Games in the individual épée event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Yves Dreyfus |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21840 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=20 April 2023}}</ref> In 1964, he won the French national championship in épée.<ref name=autogenerated3>[http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=240 Dreyfus, Yves : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
===Maccabiah Games=== He won a gold medal in individual épée at the 1961 Maccabiah Games.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> He competed for France at the 1965 Maccabiah Games.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/214130468/ ''The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana'' on August 22, 1965 · Page 41<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST19650312-01.1.12 ''Jewish Post'' 12 March <!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He won gold medals in both individual epee and team epee at the 1977 Maccabiah Games.<ref name=autogenerated3 />
==Honors== In 1966, he was decorated by General Charles de Gaulle.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> In 1967, he was given the National Order of Merit by the French Council of Ministers.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49938524/ ''The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle'' from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 29, 1967 · Page 17<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He later became a Master of Arms.<ref>[https://www.lamontagne.fr/cournon-d-auvergne/2016/04/10/succes-renouvele-pour-le-tournoi-a-lepee_11865004.html Succès renouvelé pour le tournoi à l’épée - Cournon-d'Auvergne (63800) - La Montagne<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
In 2017, he received the Fair Play Award from Alain Calmat, given by the French Association for Sport Without Violence and For Fair Play. Calmat was a Jewish Olympic Figure Skater and World Champion, and lived a life of public service.<ref name=FairPlay>{{cite web|url=https://stade-clermontois-escrime.com/2018/01/16/yves-dreyfus-recoit-le-prix-du-fair-play/ |title=Yves Dreyfus Receives the Fair Play Award |work=Stade Clermontois |accessdate=27 July 2023}}</ref>
Dreyfus died on 16 December 2021, at the age of 90 in Ceyrat, Puy-de-Dôme, France.<ref name="Obituary">[https://www.lamontagne.fr/clermont-ferrand-63000/sports/disparition-d-yves-dreyfus-legende-auvergnate-de-l-escrime Yves Dreyfus' obituary] {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21840 |title=Yves Dreyfus |work=Olympedia |accessdate=27 July 2023}}</ref> He wrote three books on fencing in his career, and participated in Masters Fencing as late as 2001.<ref name=Olympedia/>
==See also== *List of select Jewish fencers *List of Jewish Olympic medalists
==Further reading== *{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html |title=Fencing: World Championships: Men: Epee |publisher=Sports 123 |access-date=April 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012040805/http://sports123.com/fen/mw-ep.html |archive-date=October 12, 2009 }} *{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://escrimemonaco.chez-alice.fr/Html/echos17.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=14&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Yves%2BDreyfus%2522%2Bepee%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US |title=x|access-date=April 29, 2010}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=240 Jews in Sports bio] *[http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm Jewish Olympic Medalists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414152706/http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm |date=2019-04-14 }} *[http://jewprom.50webs.com/JewPromSite.htm List of Jewish Fencers]
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