John Ernest GIGNOUX

United States of America
United States of America
FencingFencing
Games Participations2
First Olympic GamesStockholm 1912
Year of Birth1878

Biography

Ernest Gignoux attended Cornell, graduating in 1898, and later became a physician. He was the first winner of the Amsler Medal at Cornell, in 1898. He spent a few years training in Berlin after medical school, and then returned to New York to practice medicine. He represented the New York Athletic Club as a fencer. While at Cornell, Gignoux was also on the cross-country team and was President of the Fencers Club. He later became secretary of the American Medical Military Aid Association which gave free medical service to the families of soldiers and sailors.

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