Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
She did compete for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in foil at the age of 42 (she was knocked out by Italian silver medalist Laura Chiesa, 15–13), and in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in épée at the age of 50 (the second-oldest female US Olympic fencer ever, after Maxine Mitchell).
not included in the Olympic program: 2008 Beijing details Russia (RUS) Svetlana Boyko Aida Shanayeva Viktoria Nikishina Yevgeniya Lamonova United States (USA) Emily Cross Hanna Thompson Erinn Smart Italy (ITA) Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Margherita Granbassi Ilaria Salvatori: 2012 London details Italy (ITA) Valentina Vezzali Elisa Di ...
Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody [4] (26 April 1909 – 10 April 2012) was an Irish fencer from County Tipperary. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. [5] When she died she was, at age 102, Ireland's oldest living Olympian and the oldest living Olympic fencer in the world. [1] [6]
Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died. She was 103. ... her career was interrupted by World War II and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 ...
Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach; Sergei Golubitsky, World Foil Champion 1997, 1998, 1999; Winner of 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1999 World Cup, Olympic silver medalist 1992. Vadim Gutzeit, Ukrainian fencer (saber), Olympic champion, world championship silver and bronze; Grigory Kriss, épée, Olympic champion, 2 ...
The oldest Olympic winner, 103-years-old Hungarian-Israeli retired Olympic and world champion in artistic gymnastics, Agnes Keleti reacts next to the wax figure of Hungarian-Spanish football ...
Maria Valentina Vezzali (Italian pronunciation: [valenˈtiːna vetˈtsaːli]; born 14 February 1974) [1] is an Italian politician and retired Olympic and World Champion foil fencer. As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil.
Irene Camber was born in Trieste, Italy, on 12 February 1926. [1] She began to be interested in fencing at eight years-old in Trieste. Her involvement in fencing was accidental: [2] instead of entering the hall where she used to practice gymnastics, she mistakenly entered the fencing hall. [2]