Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov was a Soviet foil and épée fencer. He was the 1980 Olympic champion in men's foil, and the 1981 world champion in men's foil. He was killed accidentally in a bout during the 1982 World Fencing Championships in Rome, Italy.
Edoardo Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual gold, five team golds, five silver, and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.
Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian politician and retired fencer. As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil. She is one of only five athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event.
Helene Julie Mayer was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish descent. She did studies at American universities, and later returned to Germany in 1952 where she died of breast cancer.
The Argentina women's national field hockey team is governed by the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH). The current coach is Fernando Ferrara, who was appointed after Carlos Retegui let go in late 2021. The team is currently second in the FIH Women's World Ranking.
The 2005 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 13th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held from 26 November to 4 December 2005 in Canberra, Australia.
Albert "Albie" Axelrod was an American foil fencer.
Harold David Goldsmith, known as Hal was an American Olympic foil and epee fencer.
Byron Lester Krieger was an American foil, sabre and épée fencer. Krieger represented the United States in the Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki and 1956 in Melbourne, and in the 1951 Pan American Games where he won two gold medals.
Twenty-one countries sent 980 athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics. The opening ceremony on September 15, 1957, was held in Ramat Gan Stadium, with athletes parading before Israeli President Yitzhak Ben Zvi.
Carbone is an Italian surname meaning coal in Italian. Notable people with the surname include:
The 2008 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 16th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 17 and 25 May 2008 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Association football is the most popular sport in almost all South American countries. There are a wide range of sports played in the continent of South America. Popular sports include rugby union, baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, volleyball, hockey, beach volleyball, motorsports and cricket. South America held its first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016. Two years prior to this, major cities in Brazil hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Daniel Bukantz was an American four-time individual United States national foil fencing champion, Maccabiah Games individual foil champion, four-time Olympic fencer, fencing referee, and a dentist. He has been inducted into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame, the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Alejandra Laura Gulla is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the bronze medal with the national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Gulla also won the 2010 World Cup, four Champions Trophies, and three Pan American Games. Gulla played club hockey for Lomas Athletic Club in Buenos Aires.
Adelheid "Heidi" Schmid is a retired German fencer who competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team foil events. She won an individual gold in 1960 and a team bronze medal in 1964.
Eric Oliver "Nick" Bravin is an American fencer and lawyer. He was a four-time U.S. National Champion, a three-time NCAA National Champion, and a two-time Olympian.
The 2006 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 14th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 8–16 July 2006 in Amstelveen, Netherlands.
The women's individual archery event at the 2015 Pan American Games was held from 14 to 18 July 2015 at the Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada. One of five archery events as part of the 2015 Pan American sporting programme, it was the tenth time the women's individual recurve competition had been contested at the Games. Thirty-two archers from thirteen nations qualified for the event.
