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2004 World Fencing Championships
The 2004 World Fencing Championships were held at the Hunter College in New York City, USA. The event took place on 11 June 2004. It had women's team foil and women's team sabre, both of which were not held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Medal summary Medal table See also * Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics ReferencesFIE Results World Fencing Championships World Fencing Championships World Fencing Championships Sports competitions in New York City World Fencing Championships International fencing competitions hosted by the United States World Fencing Championships The World Fencing Championships is an annual competition in fencing organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE; ''International Fencing Federation'' in English). Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events. Hi ... International sports competitions in New York (state) 2000s in Manhattan {{NYC-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylwia Gruchała
Sylwia Gruchała (born 6 November 1981 in Gdynia, Pomorskie) is a Polish fencer. Biography In the team foil she won medals at the world championships in 1998 (bronze), 1999 (silver), 2002 (silver), 2003 (gold) and 2007 (gold) as well as an Olympic silver medal in 2000. In Individual Foil she won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championship as well as an Olympic bronze medal in 2004. She is a soldier in the 3rd Command Support Battalion of the Polish Land Forces stationed in Warsaw. Gruchała is also part of the Leon Paul team. In 2009, she posed for Polish erotic magazine CKM. Honours For her sport achievements, she received: Golden Cross of Merit in 2000; Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ... (5th Class) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonore Perrus
Léonore Simone Yvonne Perrus (born 22 April 1984) is a French fencer. She competed in the sabre events at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Honours Orders *Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite Chevalier may refer to: Honours Belgium * a rank in the Belgian Order of the Crown * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold II * a title in the Belgian nobility France * a rank in the French Legion d'h ...: 2014 References External links * 1984 births Living people French female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for France Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers from Paris Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing Fencers at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite 21st-century French women {{France-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Lise Touya
Anne-Lise Touya (born 19 January 1981) is a French fencer. She competed in the sabre A sabre ( French: sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ... events at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1981 births Living people French female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for France Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tarbes 21st-century French women {{France-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Leigh Zagunis (born March 3, 1985) is an American sabre fencer. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the individual sabre ( 2004 and 2008) 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 (in 2008 and 2016) and is a five-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020). Biography Zagunis' parents, Robert and Cathy (née Menges) Zagunis, were collegiate rowers at Oregon State University and Connecticut College, respectively. They both competed with the U.S. rowing team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Her older brother Marten and younger brother Merrick also fence sabre. She grew up in Oregon and attended Valley Catholic from kindergarten to 12th grade, and the University of Notre Dame where she majored in anthropology. Zagunis is of Lithuanian descent on her paternal side and was raised in the Catholic faith. Early career Zagunis w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sada Jacobson
Sada Molly Jacobson (born February 14, 1983) is an American Olympic fencer. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist in women's sabre (one of three Olympic medals), 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. Background Jacobson was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and is Jewish. Her parents are David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber who was an All-American fencer at Yale University and now an endocrinologist, and Tina Jacobson, who also fenced competitively. She is the sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer and Junior World Champion Emily Jacobson, and fencer Jackie Jacobson. Jacobson swam competitively for two years in high school. She postponed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Jacobson
Emily Phillipa Jacobson (born December 2, 1985, in Dunwoody, Georgia) 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. Background Jacobson was born in Decatur, Georgia, and is Jewish. She is a daughter of David Jacobson, an endocrinologist who was a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber and also a former Yale fencer, and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively. She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer Sada Jacobson, born in February 1983. She also has a younger sister, Jackie, who was born February 26, 1989, who is also a world-class fencer. Jacobson graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2004. She attended Columbia University, where she was a psychology major, and graduated in 2008. She graduated from Georgia State University College of Law and the Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Baratta
Emma may refer to: * Emma (given name) Film * ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown * ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow * ''Emma'' (1996 TV film), a British television film starring Kate Beckinsale * ''Emma'' (2020 film), a British drama film starring Anya Taylor-Joy Literature * ''Emma'' (novel), an 1815 novel by Jane Austen * '' Emma Brown'', a fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë, completed by Clare Boylan in 2003 * ''Emma'', a 1955 novel by F. W. Kenyon * ''Emma: A Modern Retelling'', a 2015 novel by Alexander McCall Smith * ''Emma'' (manga), a 2002 manga by Kaoru Mori and the adapted Japanese animated series * ''EMMA'' (magazine), a German feminist journal, published by Alice Schwarzer Music Artists * E.M.M.A., a 2001–2005 Swedish girl group * Emma (Welsh singer) (born 1974) * Emma Bunton (born 1976), English singer * Emma Marrone or Emma (born 1984), Italian singer Songs * "Emma" (Hot Chocolate song), 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Kormilitsyna
Svetlana Anatolevna Verteletskaya ( Kormilitsyna, russian: Светла́на Анато́льевна Вертелецкая (дев. Корми́лицына); born 11 August 1984 in Kaluga) is a Russian fencer in sabers, twice world and European champion, Honored Master of Sports of Russia. She has higher pedagogical education, graduated from Kaluga State University Kaluga State University (KSU, russian: Калужский государственный университет), or in full, Kaluga State University in the name of K. E. Tsiolkovsky (russian: Калужский государственный ун .... Not married, there is a daughter Ksenia. In her spare time she writes poetry. References External links * * archive * * 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Kaluga Russian female foil fencers 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Nechayeva
Yelena Nechayeva (born 14 June 1979) is a Russian former fencer. She competed in the women's sabre events at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... References 1979 births Living people Russian female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for Russia Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg Universiade medalists in fencing Universiade silver medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterina Fedorkina
Yekaterina Igoryevna Fedorkina (russian: Екатерина Игоревна Федоркина; also spelled Ekaterina, born 29 March 1983) is a retired Russian sabre fencer, team world champion in 2004 and five-time European champion (team and individual). Career Fedorkina first took up rowing when she was ten years old after a rowing coach did a presentation of the sport at her school, but she found it boring. A school friend who was fencing suggested her own sport instead. Coach Galina Gashinskaya took an immediate interest in her after noticing she was left-handed. Despite early evidence of talent Fedorkina stopped training in sixth grade because of the harsh discipline, but Gashinskaya, who lived across the street, joined with her mother to badger her into coming back. After beginning with the foil (fencing), foil Fedorkina moved to sabre (fencing), sabre under the training of Gashinskaya's husband Oleg. Her first medal in a major event was a bronze medal at the 1999 Cadet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofiya Velikaya
Sofiya Aleksandrovna Velikaya ( rus, Софья Александровна Великая, , ˈsofʲjə vʲɪˈlʲikəjə; born 8 June 1985) is a Russian sabre fencer. Velikaya is a former European champion (four-time individual, six-time team), world champion (two-time individual, six-time team), and two-time Olympic team champion. She competed in the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympics, and was a three-time individual silver medalist. She dedicated her team's 2016 Olympic gold medal to those Russians who had been banned for doping. Career Velikaya is a Russian Armed Forces captain. Her fencing clubs are the Russian Central Sports Army Club and MGFSO. She placed fourth in the 2008 Beijing Games, after losing to American Sada Jacobson 11-15 in the semifinals, and then losing to American Rebecca Ward 14-15 in the bronze medal match. On 12 October 2011, she became the world champion after beating two-time Olympic champion American Mariel Zagunis in the final. One year aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
