Herbert Cohen

Herbert (Herb) Morris Cohen (born June 7, 1940) is an American Olympic foil fencer. He has also lived in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. His elder brother was the Olympic épée and saber fencer Abe Cohen, who competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He then was recruited by and attended New York University (NYU; class of 1962). There, he fenced for the NYU Violets alongside, among others, Neil Diamond and future Olympian Eugene Glazer. Fencing for NYU in 1962 he won his second straight NCAA Championship in foil, winning 31 of his 33 bouts, and was also named national college Fencer of the Year (awarded on the basis of "sportsmanship and conduct on the strip, attitude and dress, and past performances in the Championships and in over-all intercollegiate competition"). He was a three-time All-American. He competed at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Cohen won a gold medal in team foil and a bronze medal in individual foil at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil.

Olympics and philosophy Cohen competed in both the individual foil and team foil events at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 24, and in both the individual foil and the team foil events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 28. At the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Team USA defeated Romania and Argentina but lost to France, and did not advance to the semifinals.

Coaching career In the early 1970s, he coached at the Fencers Club. He also coached at Manhattan College.