Pentathletes Onishchenko and Hulkkonen Fencing Epee

Title: Pentathletes Onishchenko and Hulkkonen Fencing Epee
Subject: Olympic Games (21st : 1976 : Montreal, Canada); Épée Fencing
Description: Boris Grigoryevich Onishchenko (Soviet Union, pictured at right) fencing Heikki Hulkkonen (Finland, pictured at left) in the modern pentathlon event of the 1976 Olympic games. Onishchenko would later be disqualified from the event after his epee was found to be tampered with.

Caption on obverse:
"MONTREAL, July 19--BEFORE DISQUALIFICATIONS--Russian pentathlonist Boris Onischenko, right, is shown in action Monday just prior to being disqualified from the Olympics because judges said his sword was technically manipulated. He fences here with Heikki Hulkkonen of Finland."
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: July 19, 1976
Temporal Coverage: 1970s
Contributor: Associated Press (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: George Masin Collection
Format: 21.5 x 16.7 cm
Language: English
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2020.11.145
Spatial Coverage: Canada; Montreal
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by George Masin; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles