McGill University Athletics

Georges A. Pouliot was born in Montreal on Feb. 6, 1923. After serving with the Canadian army in World War II, he enrolled at McGill in 1945 and graduated with a bachelor of civil law in 1949.

Pouliot captured back-to-back-to-back intercollegiate fencing championships (1946 to 1948). During each of his last two years at McGill, he won the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union championship in men’s foil and in 1949, also captured the men’s saber title.

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he competed for Canada in both the individual and team foil competitions, plus individual and team epée and team saber. He won five medals at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, N.Z., winning silver in team epée in addition to bronze medals in both individual foil and saber, plus team foil and saber.

Pouliot, who went on to be a co-founder of the Quebec provincial fencing association, still practices law (at age 82) in his prominent Montreal firm, Pouliot-Mercure, SENC.