Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (February 6, 1876 – August 23, 1939) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 fencer. He was the first modern Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 champion in foil, winning the event at the 1896 Summer Olympics

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...

 in Athens

Athens

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.

Gravelotte was undefeated in his group for the preliminary round, defeating Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 fencers Athanasios Vouros

Athanasios Vouros

Athanasios Vouros was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vouros competed in the foil event. He placed second of four in his preliminary group after winning his match against Georgios Balakakis, losing to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and winning by forfeit against...

, Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis

Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the...

, and Georgios Balakakis

Georgios Balakakis

Georgios Balakakis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 and 1906 Summer Olympics.Balakakis competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis, and Athanasios Vouros...

 in succession. He then faced fellow Frenchman Henri Callot

Henri Callot

Henri Callot was a French fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Callot won the silver medal in the amateur foil event. He went undefeated in his preliminary round group, defeating Henri Delaborde, Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Ioannis Poulos...

, who had gone undefeated in the other group, in the final. Gravelotte won that match 3-2.