Richard Kruse
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| Full name | Richard Adam Kruse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain
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30 July 1983 London, England |
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| Residence | London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon(s) | Foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National coach(es) | Ziemowit Wojciechowski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | ZFW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | Current Ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Kruse (born 30 July 1983 in London, United Kingdom) is a British fencer who specialises in the foil discipline. He has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics three times. In 2015, he was part of the Great Britain team that shocked Olympic champions Italy to win the first European Games gold in team foil, the first British gold medal in a team fencing event at World or European level for fifty years.
Kruse won his first international medal, a silver, at the 2001 European Under 20 Championships and in 2002 won gold in at the same event.
He made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Games in Athens, Greece. Competing in the men's individual foil. He received a bye in the first round, beat China's Wang Haibin in round two and Dan Kellner of the United States in the third round before being defeated 8–15 by Andrea Cassarà in the quarter-finals. His eighth-place finish was the best by a British fencer since the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, when Fiona McIntosh was eighth in the women's foil, and the best by a British man since the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, when Bill Hoskyns won the silver medal in the individual épée. In 2006 Kruse won the silver medal in the men's foil event at the European Fencing Championships.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Kruse again participated in the men's individual foil event. He defeated Virgil Sălișcan of Romania in the round of 32 but was eliminated at the last 16 stage after a 9–10 loss to Germany's Peter Joppich. He finished 14th.
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