Quick Facts
Biography
Armand Mouyal (13 October 1925 – 15 July 1988) was a French epee fencer.
Fencing career
Born in Oran, French Algeria, Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s.
National championships
Mouyal, a French police officer, won the French national individual épée title in 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, and 1959.
World championships
Mouyal won the world individual épée championship in 1957.
He participated in team épée, winning a world championship gold medal in 1951; silver in 1953, 1955, 1961, and 1963; and bronze 1954 and 1958.
World rankings
Mouyal was ranked No. 5 in the world in 1955, and 8th in 1956.
Olympics
He was eliminated in the first round of the individual event and the second round of the team event at the 1952 Summer Olympics Games.
He was a member of the French team that won a bronze medal in team épée at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He advanced to the semifinals in individual épée.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he placed seventh in individual épée, reaching the finals, and the French épée team was eliminated in the second round.
Hall of Fame
Mouyal, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.