Vadim Gutzeit
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| Full name | Vadim Markovich Gutzeit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 October 1971 Kiev, Ukraine |
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| Weapon(s) | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vadim Gutzeit (also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovich Hutsayt; Ukrainian: Вадим Маркович Гутцайт; born 6 October 1971 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer, team Olympic champion in 1992 and bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships. He has been an international referee for the FIE since 2002.
Gutzeit took up fencing at the age of ten. He won the Ukrainian national championship when he was fifteen. In 1988 he became USSR Junior Champion. He earned a gold medal in the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990. A year after, he took a silver medal in the same event, as well as an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the senior World Championships.
He took part in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for the Unified Team and won the gold medal with them. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 6th in the individual sabre event after being defeated 14–15 in the quarter-finals by Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who eventually won the competition. Gutzeit took part in his third Olympiads at the 2000 Sydney Games. Seeded No.13, he lost 10–15 in the table of 16 to Domonkos Ferjancsik of Hungary. In the team competition, Ukraine finished 6th.
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