Vasil Etropolski
Personal information
Birth nameВасил Михайлов•Етрополски[1]
Full nameVasil Mihaylov•Etropolski[1]
Born (1959-03-18) 18 March 1959
Sofia, Bulgaria[1]
EmployerNew York Athletic Club[2]
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Sport
SportFencing
EventSabre
Achievements and titles
World finals1983 sabre world champion

Vasil Etropolski (born 18 March 1959) is a Bulgarian fencer and fencing coach. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics.[3] He also won the 1983 sabre world championship.[4] He is the twin brother of Khristo Etropolski, who also fenced for Bulgaria at the 1980 and 1988 Olympics.[5]

At the New York Athletic Club he coached Stephen Kovacs, a sabre fencer who in 1989 won the United States Fencing Association (USFA) Under-17 saber championship, and in 1990 won the USFA Under-20 (Junior) saber championship.[6][7][8] Kovacs later became a fencing coach, was charged with the sexual assault of two of his students, and died in prison in 2022.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Olympedia – Vasil Etropolski". www.olympedia.org.
  2. "Luke La Valle Tribute: Notre Dame Mourns The Passing Of A Fencing Great". Notre Dame Fighting Irish - Official Athletics Website. 19 January 2009.
  3. "Vasil Etropolski Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  4. "Bulgarian Wins In World Fencing". The New York Times. 25 July 1983.
  5. "Vassil Etropolski gave Bulgaria its first World Fencing Championship..." UPI.
  6. Bornstein, Arnold (5 June 1994). "En Garde! Father-and-Son Fencing". The New York Times.
  7. "Under-I7 Men's Saber", American Fencing, p. 24, March/April/May 1989.
  8. "Winners of Individual and Team Championships". The New York Times. 30 December 1990. p. 4 S.
  9. Cecilia Levine (19 January 2022). "NJ Fencing Coach Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 2 Teens Dies In Jail: Report". Somerset Daily Voice.


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