Richard Oldcorn (21 February 1938 – 1 June 2022) was a British international fencer. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Fencing career

Oldcorn represented England and won a gold medal in the team sabre, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

Richard Oldcorn

He was last selected to fence for Great Britain at the world championships in Buenos Aires in 1977, although injury prevented his taking part. Thereafter he became team manager, first of the national sabre team then for the entire British fencing team, managing them at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Although he never won the national sabre championship (his best placing was second) from 1968 till the early 1970s he was the most successful British sabreur in international competition.

Richard Oldcorn

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1938 births

2022 deaths

British male fencers

Olympic fencers for Great Britain

Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Commonwealth Games medallists in fencing

Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England

Fencers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

People from South Bucks District

Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Richard Oldcorn