Zoran Tulum

Zoran R. Tulum is a fencer and fencing coach.

He began fencing at age 9.^[1] At age 19, he won the junior national championships in Yugoslavia in épée, foil, and sabre. He received a degree in architecture from the University of Belgrade.^[2] He worked as a product designer on weekdays and coached fencing at night and on weekends.

He was assistant fencing coach at Harvard University from 1985-1987 and coach at Stanford University 1987-1998. He is now head fencing coach of his own studio, Zeta Fencing in Natick, Massachusetts and a saber coach for the U.S. Olympic Team.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

He coached Nick Bravin who competed in the 1992^[8] and 1996 Olympics.^[9] In 2013, three of his students were selected for the 18-member US National Junior Fencing Team.^[10] One of them, Eli Dershwitz, became the youngest-ever national champion in sabre,^[11] and went on to win gold medals in the Junior World Championship (2015) and twice in the Pan American Championships (2014 and 2015).^[12] In 2014, USA Fencing appointed him head coach of the U.S. Men’s Saber Team.^[13] Zeta Fencing, was ranked number one of the USFA Clubs at Cadet & Junior World Championships, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2015 with members of the club contributing 192.25 points to the US score.^[14]

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