Louise Bond-Williams

Last updated

Louise Bond-Williams
Born (1982-05-14) 14 May 1982 (age 41)
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
National coachJon Salfield, Peter Frohlich
ClubTruro Fencing Club
Retired2012
FIE  ranking current ranking

Louise Bond-Williams (born 14 May 1982) is a British sabre fencer. She represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Contents

Career

Bond-Williams took up fencing at Chipping Campden School. She quickly showed promise, winning the West Midlands championships for her age class when she was twelve. She was then coached by David Kirby at Shakespeare's Swords, the fencing club at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon.

In 1999, first year where women's sabre was allowed at top-level competitions, she earned a silver medal at the Cadet World Championships in Dijon and posted a last-16 finish at the Senior World Championships in Seoul. The following year she won a silver medal at Budapest and a gold medal at Havana in the Junior World Cup circuit. She went on to take a silver medal at the 2002 Junior World Championships in Antalya and reached the quarter-finals at the senior championships in Lisbon.

At a World Cup event in Spain Bond-Williams was noticed by Ohio State coach Vladimir Nazlymov who offered to train her in the United States and arranged for an athletic scholarship. [1] She accepted the offer as the University of Birmingham, where she had been studying for a year, did not offer her the facilities to train properly at her level. She fenced for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2002 to 2004, taking All-America honours each season. [2] Ohio State would induct her into their Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

She made her Olympic début at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the first Games allowing women's sabre, after reaching the final in the European qualifying event. [3] In the first round of the individual event she saw off Germany's Susanne Koenig, but lost afterwards to Russia's Yelena Nechayeva. [4]

After the Games she resumed her history degree at Ohio State while serving as undergraduate assistant coach. [2] She posted two quarter-finals finishes in the 2004–05 season and finished World No.22, a career best. She climbed her first senior World Cup podium with a bronze medal at Orléans in 2007. [5] She missed out however for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was severely injured in a car crash in late 2008 and sustained several operations which left her out for a full season. [6]

Related Research Articles

Sada Molly Jacobson is an American Olympic fencer. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist in women's sabre, the 2004 Olympic Individual Sabre bronze medalist in women's sabre, and the 2003 Pan American Games champion in women's sabre. In 2016, she was inducted into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame.

Vladimir Nazlymov - former Sabre fencer and coach for USSR and later the United States, to which he moved in 1991. He was born in Makhachkala, Daghestan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mariel Zagunis</span> American fencer

Mariel Leigh Zagunis is an American sabre fencer. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the individual sabre and the first American to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing. She was Team USA flag bearer in the 2012 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations. She has two Olympic bronze team medals and is a five-time Olympian.

Rebecca Ward is an American sabre fencer. She won the gold medal at the sabre 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Mariel Zagunis 15–11 in the final, and took bronze in both individual and team sabre events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She also won the women's NCAA national individual sabre championship three times, the first in history to do so in sabre. In 2015, she was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Won Woo-young</span> South Korean fencer

Won Woo-young is a South Korean sabre fencer. He won gold at the Olympics, World Championships, Asian Games and Asian Championships and is the first Asian fencer to win gold in the men's individual sabre event at the World Championships.

Emily Phillipa Jacobson is an American Olympic sabre fencer. She won a bronze medal in the 2003 Pan American Games, and was 2004 Junior World Champion in women's saber.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, was a left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer. In the Olympics he won two gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze medal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Rogers (fencer)</span> American fencer

Jason Rogers is an American saber fencer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Morehouse</span> American fencer

Timothy Frank Morehouse is an American fencer who won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Morehouse is coached by Yury Gelman. He is the founder of the Fencing in the Schools program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo</span> Romanian fencer

Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo is a Romanian foil fencer, bronze medallist in the 1992 Summer Olympics, World champion in 1994, and silver medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexandra Bujdoso</span> German-Hungarian sabre fencer

Alexandra Bujdoso is a German-Hungarian sabre fencer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicole Ross</span> American fencer

Nicole Ross is an American foil fencer. Fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team, she won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title, and was a three time All-American. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in individual women's foil, coming in 25th, while in the team event she and her teammates came in sixth. At the 2018 World Championships, she and her Team USA teammates won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vassiliki Vougiouka</span> Greek fencer

Vassiliki Vougiouka, often known as Vaso Vougiouka, is a Greek female sabre fencer, silver medallist in the 2012 and 2013 European Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Azza Besbes</span> Tunisian sabre fencer

Azza Besbes is a Tunisian sabre fencer, five-time African champion. She took part in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th, 9th and 5th respectively.

Siobhan Claire Byrne is a German-born Irish sabre fencer. She is a four-time All-American (2005–2008), a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, and a two-time medalist at the Junior World Cup Fencing Series. She also won a bronze medal for her category at the 2007 Junior European Championships in Conegliano, Italy, and was ranked as the no. 1 Irish fencer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eli Dershwitz</span> American Olympic sabre fencer

Eli Dershwitz is an American left-handed sabre fencer, four-time individual Pan American champion, and two-time Olympian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rossella Gregorio</span> Italian fencer

Rossella Gregorio is an Italian sabre fencer, bronze medallist in the 2014 European Fencing Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in sabre.

Yekaterina Igoryevna Fedorkina is a retired Russian sabre fencer, team world champion in 2004 and five-time European champion.

Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi, simply known as Bhavani Devi,, is an Indian sabre fencer. She is the first Indian fencer to ever qualify for the Olympics after qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. C.A. Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics. The eight-time national champion had failed to qualify for the Rio Olympics.

References

  1. ↑ "Bond-Williams eyes Jacobson". BBC. 28 June 2004.
  2. 1 2 "Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2012 Announced". www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com. 19 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Fencing pair make Olympics". BBC. 19 April 2004.
  4. ↑ "Louise Bond-Williams Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "BF Team prepares for World Championships". British Fencing.
  6. ↑ "Fencing: Stratford fencer Louise Bond-Williams finally back to her best". Coventry Telegraph. 8 October 2011.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.