Martin Lang

Martin Lang (born May 20, 1949) is an American former foil fencer.

Early and personal life Lang was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, later lived in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York, and is Jewish. He attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, along with Steve Kaplan who also became an Olympic fencer. After graduating from NYU with a Bachelor of Science degree, he attended New York University for graduate studies.

He worked 22 years in the hotel industry, and ten years in the automotive industry.

At the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Lang won the individual Foil Championship (the first American in 20 years to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games in foil), and also won a team foil silver medal.

Lang competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, at 27 years of age.

He won the U.S. National Foil Championship in 1978, and Lang was a five-time U.S. National Men's Foil Team Champion. Lang was inducted into the NYU Hall of Fame in 2012.