Allan Kwartler was Pan-American sabre champion, 3-time Olympian, and twice a member of sabre teams that earned 4th-place in Olympic Games.
21 Facts About Allan Kwartler
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Allan Kwartler was born in New York City, later lived in Yonkers, New York, and was Jewish.
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Allan Kwartler attended Benjamin Franklin Junior High School and Morris High School in the Bronx.
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Allan Kwartler had careers in advertising sales and insurance underwriting.
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Allan Kwartler returned to New York City in 1948, when he joined Salle Santelli, where he studied sabre under Maestro Giorgio Santelli, the Olympic fencing coach, and foil under Professor Edward F Lucia.
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Allan Kwartler was the United States' most consistent 2-weapon fencer in the 1950s and 1960s, a several-times US National Championships finalist, in saber and foil.
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Allan Kwartler was nationally ranked 17 times in either foil or saber between 1951 and 1965, and was a member of 10 US national championship teams.
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Allan Kwartler fenced in the Olympics in 1952,1956, and 1960.
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Allan Kwartler was a member of the sabre team that placed fourth in 1956, and in individual saber he made the semi-finals that same year.
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Allan Kwartler won saber team gold medals at the 1955 and 1959 Pan Am Games.
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Allan Kwartler was a silver medalist in team foil and individual foil finalist at the 1955 Pan American Games.
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Allan Kwartler was a finalist in the first Martini-Rossi world cup sabre event.
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In 1950 and 1953 Allan Kwartler, who was Jewish, was selected for the Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning the sabre championship in the 1950 Maccabiah Games, and the foil in 1953 Maccabiah Games.
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Allan Kwartler was the veterans champion in sabre several times at the Empire State Games.
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Allan Kwartler was a widely respected official, and presided at the individual sabre finals in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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Allan Kwartler was chairman of the Amateur Fencers League of America's Metropolitan Division and AFLA national secretary.
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Allan Kwartler remained active in the affairs of the Westchester Division of the USFA and the Empire State Games.
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Allan Kwartler was a widely respected coach, who coached in the methods of the Italian School for sabre, foil, and epee fencing.
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Allan Kwartler was named USFCA coach of the year in the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association in 1994.
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Allan Kwartler was inducted into the Yonkers Hall of Fame in 1980, the Westchester Sports Hall of Fame in 1991, and the USFA Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Allan Kwartler died on November 11,1998, and was survived by his wife, Connie, his son and two daughters, and four grandchildren.