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- ↑ "Women's Foil Individual: Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ↑ "Women's team foil". 2017 Pan American Fencing Championships. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
