Vadym Gutzeit

Vadim Gutzeit
Personal information
Full name Vadim Markovich Gutzeit
Born (1971-10-06) 6 October 1971
Kiev, Ukraine
Weapon(s) Sabre
Hand right-handed
Medal record
Men's sabre
Representing the  Unified Team
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona Team sabre[1]
World Championships
1991 Budapest Team sabre
1991 Budapest Individual sabre
Representing  Ukraine
European Championships
2000 Madeira Team sabre
Maccabiah Games
2005 Israel Individual sabre
2005 Israel Team sabre
2001 Israel Individual sabre

Vadim Gutzeit (also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovich Hutsayt; Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; born 6 October 1971 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer, team Olympic champion in 1992 and bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships. He has been an international referee for the FIE since 2002.

Career

Gutzeit took up fencing at the age of ten. He won the Ukrainian national championship when he was fifteen. In 1988 he became USSR Junior Champion. He earned a gold medal in the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990. A year after, he took a silver medal in the same event, as well as an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the senior World Championships.

He took part in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for the Unified Team and won the gold medal with them.[2] He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 6th in the individual sabre event after being defeated 14–15 in the quarter-finals by Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who eventually won the competition.[3] Gutzeit took part in his third Olympiads at the 2000 Sydney Games. Seeded No.13, he lost 10–15 in the table of 16 to Domonkos Ferjancsik of Hungary. In the team competition, Ukraine finished 6th.[4]

Gutzeit, who is Jewish, took part in the 2001 Maccabiah Games and won the silver medal in the individual sabre. He was defeated in the gold medal final by Sergey Sharikov of Russia. Gutzeit won the gold medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, reaping revenge over Sharikov of Russia, as Ukraine also won the team sabre gold medal.[5]

Gutzeit became in 2002 an international referee in foil and sabre for the International Fencing Federation. He has since officiated in many major competitions, including the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He is also vice-president of the Ukrainian Fencing Federation since 2000 and a member of the executive committee of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine since 2004. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Olympics Statistics: Vadim Gutzeit". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  2. ↑ "Vadym Huttsait Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  3. ↑ http://recdb.jiss.naash.go.jp/jsp-examples/list_athlete.jsp?name=GUTTSAYT%20Vadym
  4. ↑ "Gutzeit, Vadim". Jews in Sports. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Google". google.com. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
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