Alexandru Nyisztor
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Alexandru Nyisztor-Csáki |
| Country represented | Romania |
| Born |
27 June 1979 Satu Mare, Romania |
| Weapon(s) | Épée |
| Hand | left-handed |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
| Club | CSU Târgu Mureș |
| FIE Ranking | current ranking |
Alexandru Nyisztor (born 27 June 1979) is a Romanian épée fencer, who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is eight-time national épée champion of Romania.
Nyisztor took up fencing when he was nine years old, on medical advice: he was a sickly child and his doctor recommended his mother to take him to sport. His mother chose fencing because the hall was close to home. He grew bored quickly and started to play truant until his mother met his coach, Marcela Moldovan, who revealed he had not trained for a while. Nyisztor was summoned to give in his equipment. When he arrived to the hall he thought he would train one last time and eventually decided to go on. He practiced foil first, then turned to épée as well.
He transferred to CS Crișul Oradea in 1993 to follow his coach, while continuing his studies at his home city, Satu Mare. He began to train in épée under the coaching of Nicolae Ille. In 1994 he was asked to join both the national foil team in Satu Mare and the national épée team in Craiova. He opted for the latter. he earned a bronze medal at the 1996 Cadet World Championships in Tournai and at the 1999 Junior World Championships in Tournai.
In the senior category Nyisztor posted a quarter-finals finish at the 2001 European Championships in Koblenz after he lost to Russia's Pavel Kolobkov, then another at the 2002 edition, losing this time to Hungary's Gábor Boczkó. Nyisztor climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal at the 2003 Bratislava Grand Prix, but he could not attend the 2003 World Championships because the Romanian Fencing Federation was late for registration. He however qualified to the individual event at the 2004 Summer Olympics through the European zone qualifier in Ghent, becoming the first male épée fencer to represent Romania at Olympic Games. For his Olympic début he defeated Ukraine's Bohdan Nikishyn in the preliminary round, but lost to Italy's Alfredo Rota in the table of 32.
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