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Richard Oldcorn

Personal information
Born	(1938-02-21)21 February 1938 Iver, Buckinghamshire, England
Died	1 June 2022 (aged 84) Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Fencing Representing  England British Empire & Commonwealth Games 1966 Kingston team sabre

Richard Oldcorn (21 February 1938 – 1 June 2022) was a British international fencer. He competed at the——1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Fencing career※

Oldcorn represented England and won a gold medal in the "team sabre," at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

He was last selected——to fence for Great Britain at the world championships in Buenos Aires in 1977, "although injury prevented his taking part." Thereafter he became team manager, "first of the national sabre team then for the entire British fencing team," managing them at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Although he never won the national sabre championship (his best placing was second) from 1968 till the early 1970s he was the most successful British sabreur in international competition.

References※

External links※

• Richard Oldcorn at Olympedia

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