Doris de Jong

Doris de Jong fenced at both the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, competing with all three weapons in 1932. In July 1928 he married an American woman in London, and they emigrated to the United States together in November 1928. In 1929 he submitted an intent to apply for citizenship, and in September 1924, did so after the five-year mandatory waiting period. In the USA he took the name Duris. De Jong worked as a seaman until at least start of World War II. He later settled in Thousand Oaks, California, where he started a fencing club, the Conejo Fencers.