Sharon Monplaisir

Last updated

Sharon Monplaisir
Personal information
Born (1960-11-03) November 3, 1960 (age 65)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Sport
Sport Fencing
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United States.svg United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1987 Indianapolis Team foil
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Havana Team foil

Sharon Mary Monplaisir (born November 3, 1960) is an American foil fencer. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. [1] She was also on the gold-winning United States fencing team at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games, and was a four-time NCAA All-American fencer. [2]

Contents

Monplaisir is the subject of children's non-fiction chapter book, Sword of a Champion by Doreen and Michael Greenberg, in the Anything You Can Do... series from Wish Publishing. [3] She is also the model/subject for the exercise book, Get a Gold Medal Butt by Gary Guerriero and Mary Leonard.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sharon Monplaisir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  2. ↑ Lamb, Yanick Rice (January 1996). "Olympic legends". Essence. 26 (9): 90. ISSN   0014-0880 – via EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier.
  3. ↑ Greenberg, Doreen L.; Greenberg, Michael A. (2000). Sword of a champion : the story of Sharon Monplaisir . Terre Haute, Ind.: Wish Pub. ISBN   1930546394. OCLC   46896834.


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.