Irma Khetsuriani is a Georgian
wheelchair fencer. She won the world championship in October 2015, which was held in France,
and again in 2017 in Rome,
and in 2018 in
Warsaw
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, Poland.
She won silver in the sabre B discipline in the world championships held in
Eger
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, Hungary, in 2015.
She is the first wheelchair fencer in Georgia, and took up the sport after it was suggested to her by the country's paralympic committee. She has a spinal disease.
At the 2015
International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation
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IWAS is a registered charity with its headquarters located at Aylesbury Colleg ...
world cup event she competed in all three fencing disciplines of
épée
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,
sabre
A sabre ( French: sabÊ 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 ...
and
foil
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Materials
* Foil (metal), a quite thin sheet of metal, usually manufactured with a rolling mill machine
* Metal leaf, a very thin sheet of decorative metal
* Aluminium foil, a type of wrapping for food
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, while most other competitors competed in only one discipline.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Female épée fencers from Georgia (country)
Wheelchair fencers
Female foil fencers from Georgia (country)
Female sabre fencers from Georgia (country)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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