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| show-medals = yes }} Joseph Levis (July 20, 1905, in Boston, MA – May 20, 2005) was an American foil fencer. He won nine national fencing championships and participated in three Olympic Games representing the United States.〔http://usfencinghalloffame.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=52〕 The Roll of Honor at the US Fencing Hall of Fame (USFA) credits his individual Olympic silver medalist in foil (1932) as the finest accomplishment ever by an American fencer and his victory in the 1954 nationals, after a 16-year layoff from competition, as the greatest comeback in the history of American fencing.〔 ==Early life== Levis was an Italian-American, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts to Albert W. Levis, a painter and sculptor from Florence, Italy, and Rosa M. Finocchietti, daughter of Italian immigrants from Genoa and a prominent activist for the suffragette movement of the 1920s.〔http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu6t1QtJJHiMAGplXNyoA?p=%22rosa+m+levis%22&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501〕 As a teenager, he first learned the basics of fencing from his father, who had won several championships in his home country of Italy. But it was not until Levis joined the fencing team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1922 that he began to develop the skills that would lead him to greatness. Often during his career, Levis credited US Hall of Fame fencer George C. Calnan, his teammate at MIT, as his greatest influence and most important teacher.〔http://usfencinghalloffame.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=52〕 Under his tutelage, Levis won the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship in foil in 1926, after placing second the previous year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Levis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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