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| Born | June 1938 Wien, German Reich (now Vienna, Austria) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | (aged 77) Vienna, Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | HSV Wien | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herbert Polzhuber (June 1938 – 24 June 2015) was an Austrian fencer and modern pentathlete. Considered one of Austria's greatest épée fencers, he participated at four consecutive Olympic Games in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976, being a fencer in each in addition to a pentathlete in his first appearance.[1][2] He is also partly remembered for an incident at the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, where he allegedly drank 10 beers and a bottle of cognac before firing his pistol into the ground and passing out.[3]
- ^ "Herbert Polzhuber Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the EFC/CEE for the 2016 Congress in Torun". European Fencing Confederation. 14 June 2015. Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Dator, James (29 July 2019). "The story of a Swedish Olympian in 1968 who had to forfeit his medal for drinking beer". SB Nation. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
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