About Laszlo

Laszlo Jakab has been a fencing coach for 30 years. In 1996 he was invited to coach in the North East of England, since then the North East has became one of the strongest regions for fencing in Britain. Laszlo's fencers are competing at the highest levels, rakning at the top of the UK and regularly winning competitions

Laszlo has been a fencer since he was 10 years old. He started his career as a fencing coach in 1970 in Ujpesti Dozsa, taught and supervised by Mr. Barna Csanyi and Mr. Lajos Somody.

Laszlo was the first coach of Szabo Bence and Laszlo Csongradi, the Olympic Sabre Team Champions in Seoul. Szabo Bence also won Olympic Gold in the individual sabre in Barcelona. In 1994 Laszlo's student, Joszef Navarette became Olympic silver medalist in the sabre team at Atlanta and later in 1999 was a member of the Hungarian team who took the World title. In addition, his son Peter Jakab, was a finalist in the Junior World Championships at Sao Paulo. Even today, many current Hungarian team members owe their fencing skills to Professor Laszlo Jakab.

Laszlo had been invited to coach in many countries during his time in Hungary, in order to both coach fencers and improve the coaching system.