Dezső Földes


Dezső Földes was a Hungarian saber fencer.

Olympics

Földes won gold medals in team saber at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Life

He was Jewish, and was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary. Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950.