Alf Horn

Alf Horn was born in Norway, but moved to Canada at a young age. He had a brief track and field athletics career in the early 1930s but, by the end of the decade, was much better known as a fencer and was already serving as a coach at Montreal’s Central YMCA. By the middle of World War II, he was also serving as the club’s chairman. After the conflict, he became involved in the administration of the Quebec provincial fencing association and, in 1948, was selected to represent Canada at that year’s London Olympics. There, he competed in every event except the individual sabre, but never made it past the second round of any of them. He missed the 1950 British Empire Games due to business commitments, which soon overtook his career as a sportsman. Domestically, he won several Quebec provincial title in different categories.