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Gábor Boczkó
Boczkó at the 2014 Challenge RFF (Paris World Cup)
Personal information
Born	(1977-04-01) 1 April 1977 (age 47) Tapolca, Hungary
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Country	Hungary
Weapon	épée
Hand	right-handed
Club	Tapolcai Bauxit (–1996) Bp. Honvéd (1997–)
Head coach	István Móna Győző Kulcsár
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's fencing Representing  Hungary Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships 1 2 4 European Championships 7 5 3 Universiade 0 1 1 Total 8 9 9 Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team épée 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team épée World Championships 2013 Budapest Team épée 2011 Catania Team épée 2010 Paris Épée 2010 Paris Team épée European Championships 2010 Leipzig Épée 2012 Legnano Team épée 2013 Zagreb Team épée

Gábor Boczkó (born 1 April 1977) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team Épée competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Krisztián Kulcsár, Géza Imre and Iván Kovács.

Boczkó took up fencing after his father took him to a competition in Tapolca. His first coach was Kinga Borosné Eitner.

Medal record (Individual)

World Championship

Date	Location	Event	Position
2010-11-05	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	3rd

European Championships

Date	Location	Event	Position
2009-07-13	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2010-07-16	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	2nd
2015-06-07	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Men's Épée	3rd

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2004-02-07	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Men's Épée	2nd
2006-01-27	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2006-04-28	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2006-06-16	Carolina, Puerto Rico	Individual Men's Épée	2nd
2007-05-11	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	1st
2007-06-01	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Épée	1st
2008-01-25	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2009-01-16	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2013-01-18	Doha, Qatar	Individual Men's Épée	1st
2013-03-23	Vancouver, Canada	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2016-03-18	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Épée	3rd

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2004-02-21	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2005-05-06	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	2nd
2006-05-05	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2006-07-15	Teheran, Iran	Individual Men's Épée	1st
2007-06-15	Bogota, Colombia	Individual Men's Épée	1st
2009-03-27	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	2nd
2009-05-09	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2010-03-26	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2011-01-14	Legnano, Italy	Individual Men's Épée	3rd
2015-05-01	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	2nd

Record against selected opponents

Includes results from all competitions 2006 – present and major competitions from pre – 2006. The list includes athletes who have reached the quarterfinals at the World Championships or Olympic Games, plus those who have earned medals in major team competitions.

• Diego Confalonieri 0–1
• Bas Verwijlen 3–1
• Vitaly Zakharov 3–0
• Jose Luis Abajo 3–1
• Anton Avdeev 1–1
• Érik Boisse 1–0
• Stefano Carozzo 3–0
• Géza Imre 3–2
• Fabrice Jeannet 1–1
• Maksym Khvorost 1–1
• Tomasz Motyka 1–1
• Ulrich Robeiri 1–2
• Yin Lian Chi 0–1
• Krisztián Kulcsár 1–0
• Alfredo Rota 2–0
• Joaquim Videira 0–1
• Radosław Zawrotniak 2–1
• Ignacio Canto 1–0
• Robert Andrzejuk 1–0
• Dmitriy Karuchenko 1–1
• Bogdan Nikishin 0–3
• Silvio Fernández 1–0
• Jérôme Jeannet 1–0

Awards

• Hungarian Junior fencer of the Year (1): 1996
• Masterly youth athlete: 1997
• Hungarian Fencer of the Year (4): 2002, 2008, 2010, 2013
• Hungarian Fair Play Award (2014)

Orders and special awards

• Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Knight's Cross (2004)
• Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2016)

References

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External links

• Gábor Boczkó at the International Fencing Federation
• Gábor Boczkó at the European Fencing Confederation
• Gabor Boczko at Olympics.com
• Gabor Boczko at Olympic.org (archived)
• Gábor Boczkó at Olympedia (archive)
• Gábor Boczkó at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)

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