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Ralph Cooperman

Personal information
Full name	Arnold Ralph Cooperman
Born	(1927-11-16)16 November 1927 Stoke Newington, London, England
Died	22 March 2009(2009-03-22) (aged 81) London, England
Height	5-8.5 (174 cm)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	Foil and sabre
Medal record Fencing Representing  England British Empire & Commonwealth Games 1954 Vancouver foil team 1954 Vancouver sabre individual 1954 Vancouver sabre team 1958 Cardiff sabre team 1958 Cardiff sabre individual 1962 Perth foil team 1962 Perth sabre individual 1962 Perth sabre team 1962 Perth foil individual 1966 Kingston sabre individual 1966 Kingston sabre team

Arnold Ralph Cooperman (16 November 1927 – 22 March 2009) was a British three-time Olympic foil and sabre fencer.

Personal life

Cooperman was born in Stoke Newington, England, and was Jewish.

Fencing career

He won the British junior championships in foil and sabre in 1950 and 1951, and was a three times British fencing champion, winning the sabre title at the British Fencing Championships in 1954, 1960 and 1961.

Cooperman was a medalist at the 1950 Maccabiah Games, the 1953 Maccabiah Games, and the 1969 Maccabiah Games. He competed in the world championships in 1953.

He competed on behalf of Great Britain in foil and sabre at the 1956 in Melbourne, and in Rome in the 1960 Summer Olympics and Tokyo in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

He represented England and won a gold medal and two silver medals in the foil and sabre respectively at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada.

At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games won a gold and silver in the sabre events and four years later at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won triple gold and a bronze medal in the foil (behind teammate Allan Jay). He won his 11th medal in total and 6th and 7th gold medals in both sabre and team sabre at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

References

1. ^ Raz, Yonit. "Ralph Cooperman – A distinguished Jewish fencer 1927-2009". Esra Magazine. No. 150. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023.
2. ^ Arnold, A. J. (30 July 1954). "Eight Jewish Athletes at BFG". The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. p. 15 – via Google News.
3. "British Champions" (PDF). British Fencing. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
4. "In Memoriam". Retrieved 15 November 2023.
5. "Ralph Cooperman Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
6. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
7. "1954 Athletes". Team England. Retrieved 15 November 2023.

External links

• Ralph Cooperman on Olympedia
• Ralph Cooperman on Olympics.com

• 1927 births
• 2009 deaths
• British male fencers
• Jewish foil fencers
• Jewish sabre fencers
• Jewish English sportspeople
• Olympic fencers for Great Britain
• Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
• People from Stoke Newington
• Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hackney
• Maccabiah Games medalists in fencing
• Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Great Britain
• Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Great Britain
• Commonwealth Games medallists in fencing
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
• Fencers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Fencers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Fencers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Fencers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Competitors at the 1950 Maccabiah Games
• Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games
• Competitors at the 1969 Maccabiah Games
• Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games