Christian d'Oriola

Foil. D'Oriola won Olympic individual foil gold in 1952 and 1956 and four world titles, and he is often held up as the purest exponent of the French school: light, precise finger control of the blade and elegant footwork rather than force. Electric scoring arrived in foil in the mid-1950s, and his ability to win before and after it shows how much his game rested on technique rather than the judges' eyes.