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| Nationality | Egyptian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 April 1999 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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Yara El-Sharkawy (born 11 April 1999) is an Egyptian fencer. [1] She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
She competed at the 2015 African Fencing Championships, 2017 African Fencing Championships, 2018 African Fencing Championships, and 2019 African Fencing Championships. [3]
Jeon Hee-sook is a South Korean foil fencer.
Valentyna Ksenofontivna Rastvorova was a Ukrainian who was a Soviet fencer who competed in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics in the individual foil and team foil events. She won an individual silver medal and team gold medal in 1960, and a team silver medal in 1964. She also won six gold and two silver medals at the world championships of 1956–67.
Yelena Borisovna Grishina is a former Soviet fencer. She competed in the women's team foil events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. In the 1989 World Fencing Championships and the 1990 World Fencing Championships she won silver medals in foil team competing for the Soviet Union, and in 1995 she won a bronze medal in the European Championships in foil.
Lee Kiefer is an American right-handed foil fencer and three-time Olympic champion in women's foil, having won the individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the individual and team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the most decorated women's foil fencer in American history.
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 Team USA won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.
Larisa Viktorovna Korobeynikova is a Russian right-handed foil fencer, 2021 team Olympic champion, 2021 individual Olympic bronze medalist, three-time team world champion and two-time team European champion. She received the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class in 2012.
İrem Karamete is a Turkish fencer competing in the foil event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the first Turkish fencer to qualify for the Olympics since 1984.
Noura Mohamed is an Egyptian fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing her only match. She also represented Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Sera Azuma is a Japanese fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 2018 Asian Games, winning the bronze medal. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's foil event at the 2019 Asian Fencing Championships held in Chiba, Japan. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she earned the bronze medal in the women's team foil event, which was Japan's first-ever Olympic medal in the event.
Yuka Ueno is a Japanese fencer. She won the silver medal in the women's foil event at the 2019 Asian Fencing Championships held in Chiba, Japan. She also won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.
Chen Qingyuan is a Chinese right-handed foil fencer. She won the silver medal in both the women's individual and team foil events at the 2022 Asian Fencing Championships held in Seoul, South Korea.
Karin Miyawaki is a Japanese fencer. She has won medals at several editions of the Asian Fencing Championships and, in 2014, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's team foil event at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.
Flóra Pásztor is a Hungarian fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Kata Kondricz is a Hungarian foil fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Katina Proestakis is a Chilean fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Martyna Jelińska is a Polish fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2017, she won the bronze medal in the women's team foil event at the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan. She also competed in the women's individual foil event.
Noha Hany is an Egyptian fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Leonie Ebert is a German fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Meriem Mebarki is an Algerian fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She finished in 33rd place, after losing to Flóra Pásztor of Hungary in the Round of 64.
The fencing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were run from 27 July to 4 August at the Grand Palais strip. A total of 212 fencers, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across twelve medal events at the Games. For the second straight time, Paris 2024 witnessed both men and women fence against each other in the individual and team events held in all three weapons.
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