SPORTS – AS DUEL. FENCER Victor Aleksandrovich Sidyak

Around the world now only 6 athletes who have won four Olympic Games in a row. One of them – Victor Aleksandrovich Sidyak, the unique fencer of the present. With desire to achieve results He was born on November 24, 1943 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk Kemerovo Region, in a working family. In some years the family moved to Donetsk, and after to Lviv where in 1957 fourteen-year-old Victor Aleksandrovich Sidyak together with friends registered in fencing section to the trainer Galiakbarov Gennady. From three sports disciplines of fencing – a saber, swords and rapiers – he chose a saber which can put to the opponent not only pricking, but also...