Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier
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Representing  Denmark
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1912 Stockholm | Individual epée |
Dr. Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, (December 16, 1888 – December 23, 1965), was a Danish fencer from Copenhagen. Osiier was also a physician.
Osiier won a total of 25 Danish National Championships in all 3 fencing weapons — foil, epee, and sabre. He won the Danish foil championship in 1913, 1915, 1917–19, 1923–24, and 1927–29. He was also the national épée champion in 1915–17, 1927–28, and the sabre champion in 1913, 1916–20, 1922–23, 1928–29.
Osiier began his athletic career as an oarsman, and achieved considerable renown in the sport before he turned to fencing, and served as the longtime head of the Denmark Fencing Federation.
He was also Scandinavian Foil titleholder in 1920–21, 1923, 1927, 1929, and 1931; he was Épée Champion in 1920; and he was Sabre Champion in 1921, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1933.
Osiier represented Denmark in 7 Olympic Games between 1908 and 1948. He boycotted the 1936 Berlin Games, to protest against the Nazis.
Osiier won his only Olympic medal in 1912, a silver in Individual Epee, at the Games.
Osiier was one of very few athletes to receive the Olympic Diploma of Merit.
He first competed in the 1908 London Olympics, reaching the 2nd round in the individual épée competition (he finished 18th), while Denmark lost in the team competition to France and Great Britain.
Osiier competed in the Olympiad in 1912 in all three fencing weapons (foil, épée, and sabre), and won the only medal of his Olympic career. In the individual épée, he finished in 2nd place to capture the silver medal by winning five of seven matches in the finals (Belgian fencer Paul Anspach won the gold medal). At Stockholm, Osiier also was eliminated in the 1st round of both the individual and team sabre competitions. In individual foil, he advanced to the semifinals before being eliminated, and finished 20th.
His next Olympic competition took place in 1920 at the Antwerp Games because the Olympics were cancelled in 1916 due to World War I. There, he competed in three events, and made the finals in all three. He finished in 4th place in the team foil event, 6th place in team sabre, and 8th in the individual foil event.
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