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'''Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky''' ({{lang-ru|Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский}}) (October 25, 1928, in the village of Aleksandrovka, [[Verkhubinsky]] District, [[East Kazakhstan Province]] – December 9, 1999, in Moscow)<ref>{{ru icon}} [http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/default.asp?id=131827 Article on Yakov Rylsky] in [[Sovetsky Sport]] newspaper</ref> was a [[Jewish]] [[sabre]] [[Fencing|fencer]] of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA107&dq=Yakov+Rylsky+jewish&hl=en&ei=utuZTsGCMYbk0QHttYmwBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The International Jewish Sports Hall ... |author=Joseph M. Siegman |publisher= |date= |accessdate=October 20, 2011}}</ref>  He competed in three [[Olympiad]]s, and won two medals for the Soviet Union's fencing team.<ref name="databaseolympics">{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RYLSKYAK01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Yakov Rylsky |accessdate=October 20, 2010 |work=databaseolympics.com}}</ref><ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ry/yakov-rylsky-1.html |title=Yakov Rylsky Olympic Results |accessdate=October 20, 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>

==Fencing career==
Rylsky began fencing in 1950.  He was a member of the [[USSR]] National Team between 1953 and 1966.<ref>{{ru icon}} [http://rusfencing.ru/cntnt/o_fehtovan/kto_est_kt/r1/rylskij_ya.html Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation]</ref>

Rylsky was the Soviet sabre champion from 1954–1958.  In 1963, he was the winner of the Dantzer Cup in Paris.   He was a Merited Master of Sport in the Soviet Union.

Rylsky trained at [[Dynamo (sports society)|Dynamo]] in Moscow.<ref name="Khavin">{{cite book|title=All about Olympic Games.|author=Boris Khavin|publisher=[[Fizkultura i sport (publisher)|Fizkultura i sport]]|edition = 2nd|page=576|year=1979|location=Moscow|language=Russian}}</ref>

==World championships==
Rylsky was a 3-time gold medalist in individual sabre at the [[World Championship]]s (1958, 1961, and 1963).[http://sports123.com/fen/mw-sa.html]

==Olympics==
Rylsky competed in the individual and team sabre events at the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] in [[Melbourne]].  In the team competition, Rylsky and his teammates lost to Poland (9–7) and Hungary (9–7) in the final pool, but won the [[bronze medal]] by beating France in the third-place match. Rylsky was eliminated in the second round of the individual competition.

Rylsky participated in individual and team events at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] in Rome. They finished fifth in the team event, and Rylsky reached the finals in the individual competition and finished eighth.

In Rylsky's final Olympiad appearance, at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] in Tokyo, he won a [[gold medal]] in the team sabre event.  He finished fourth in the individual event.

==See also==
*[[List of Jews in sports#Fencing|List of select Jewish fencers]]

==References==
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==Sources==
*[http://jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=255 Jews in Sports bio]

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