Jyoti Chetty (born January 26, 1982 in
Pretoria
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) is a South African sabre fencer. Chetty represented
South Africa
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where she competed in two sabre events.
For her first event, the
women's individual sabre, Chetty lost the first preliminary match to Tunisia's Azza Besbes, with a score of 2–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Shelley Gosher,
Elvira Wood and
Adele du Plooy, for the
women's team sabre. Chetty and her team, however, lost the seventh place match to the Canadian team (led by
Sandra Sassine
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), with a total score of 16 touches.
References
External links
Profile–
FIENBC 2008 Olympics profile*
South African female sabre fencers
Living people
Olympic fencers of South Africa
Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Pretoria
1982 births
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