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Fencing At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Sabre
The women's sabre competition in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 8 August at the Carioca Arena 3. Russia's Yana Egorian won the gold medal over compatriot Sofiya Velikaya, and Ukraine's Olha Kharlan won the bronze medal. The medals were presented by Irena Szewińska, International Olympic Committee, IOC List of members of the International Olympic Committee, member, Poland and Stanislav Pozdnyakov, President of the European Fencing Confederation and Russian Olympic Committee. Results Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's sabre Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Women's sabre 2016 in women's fencing Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carioca Arena 3
Carioca Arena 3 (Portuguese: ''Arena Carioca 3''), now named the Isabel Salgado Olympic Educational Gymnasium, is a sports training school and indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue hosted taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, taekwondo and fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, judo and Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, wheelchair fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Carioca Arena 3 was planned to be transformed into a sports high school after the Games. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the structure of Carioca Arena 3 was used as a base for the health workers on vaccination programme. As of February 2022, the Arena is open for children engaged in sports activities promoted by the prefecture of Rio de Janeiro. In December, the plans for a sports training school were finally put into place, with the fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympedia
Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball. Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game Immaculate Grid and the statistics-based subscription service Stathead. From 2008 to 2020 the website included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent. History The company was founded in Philadelphia by Sean Forman in 2004 and incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007. The company operates databases of sports statistics for several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Małgorzata Kozaczuk
Małgorzata Kozaczuk (born 6 June 1988) is a Polish sabre fencer. Life Kozaczuk was born in Warsaw in 1988. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was also scheduled to complete in the sabre fencing team with Marta Puda, Alexsandra Socha and Bogna Jóźwiak. References External links * * * * * 1988 births Living people Polish female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for Poland Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Fencers from Warsaw 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish sportswomen European Games competitors for Poland Fencers at the 2023 European Games Military World Games bronze medalists for Poland Military World Games medalists in fencing {{Poland-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Chen
Shen Chen (; born 28 July 1990) is a Chinese sabre fencer. Shen won a bronze medal in the 2013 and 2014 Asian Fencing Championships. In the 2013–14 season, she also earned a bronze medal at the Antalya World Cup and a silver medal at the Beijing Grand Prix. In the 2014–15 season she won the gold medal at the 2015 Asian Fencing Championships The 2015 Asian Fencing Championships were held in Singapore from 25 to 30 July 2015 at the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang Kallang ( ) is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential zone located in th .... References 1990 births Living people Chinese female sabre fencers Asian Games medalists in fencing Fencers at the 2014 Asian Games Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese sportswomen {{PRChina-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nada Hafez
Nada Hafez (born 28 August 1997) is an Egyptian sabre fencer. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics in Sabre. Career In 2014, she became a member of the Egyptian National Senior Fencing Sabre Women's Team. In 2015, she won her first Egyptian Senior Women's Sabre National Republic Competition. In 2016, she qualified through the African zonal qualification (Algeria) to the 2016 Summer Rio Olympics and in 2021, she qualified for the Summer Tokyo Olympics. Hafez won one silver (2018) and two bronze (2019, 2014) at the African zonal championship. She also won the bronze medal at the Belgium Tournoi satellite. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris while seven months pregnant. She beat American Elizabeth Tartakovsky 15-13 before losing 15-7 to South Korean Jeon Ha-young. Personal life Hafez is an Egyptian national champion in gymnastics. She attended Cairo University where she earned a degree in Medicine in 2022, going on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandra Benítez
Alejandra Benítez Romero (born 7 July 1980) is a Venezuelan sabre fencer, who competed at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was minister of sports in 2013 Sports career Benítez was born in a popular parish AntímanoCaracas district. She began fencing accidentally at the age of fifteen years old on the suggestion and good reference of one of her aunts, who knew coach Hildemaro Sánchez at the Central University of Venezuela. The national Venezuelan team trained in the same fencing hall, which inspired her to work hard to join them. Besides fencing, Benítez also practiced ballet, ornamentals jumper, judo, and a little bit of music, swimming and volleyball. In 1996 the younger Sportler joined the national junior team. With them she took part in the first Junior World Championships for women's sabre held in 1999 in Dijon, France. They earned a gold medal in the team event after Venezuela prevailed successively over Italy, France and Germany. In the senio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event. Muhammad is a five-time World medalist (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015) and at the 2014 World Fencing Championships, won gold with the United States women's sabre team. Muhammad was named one of Time 100's Most Influential People in the World (2016), is a sports ambassador for the United States Department of State and is a New York Times Bestselling author. Early life Muhammad was born on December 4, 1985, in New Jersey and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. She has two older siblings, Brandilyn and Qareeb, and two younger siblings, Asiya and Faizah. Her parents are of African American descent. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Kravatska
Olena Vitaliyivna Kravatska (; born 22 June 1992) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is an Olympic champion and silver medallist in the team sabre event. Kravatska won the gold medal in the team sabre event at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the team sabre event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is also a World Championships silver and bronze medallist, European Games champion, and European Championships silver and two-time bronze medallist in the team sabre. Career Kravatska won a silver medal in the 2010 Junior European Championships and a team gold medal that same year at the Junior World Championships. In the 2013–14 season she took part in her first major senior competitions. At the 2014 European Championships in Strasbourg, she ranked 2nd after the pools and received a bye. She was then defeated in the table of 32 by Germany's Sibylle Klemm and finished 17th. At the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, she was defeated in the table of 64 by Olympic silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Belén Pérez Maurice
María Belén Pérez Maurice (born 12 July 1985) is an Argentine sabre fencer who was Pan American champion in 2014. She was the only representative of the sport from Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Career Pérez Maurice started fencing at the age of thirteen at the instigation of her mother, an amateur fencer. She did not like the sport at first but took an interest after her first victory. She trained at the Círculo Militar in Buenos Aires–her father is a colonel in the Argentine Army– under Lucas Saucedo, who remains her coach as of 2014. She first fenced foil, a weapon in which she reached the quarter-finals at the 2006 Buenos Aires World Cup, then switched to sabre for the 2006–07 season. She began a career as a fashion model parallel to her sport career but had to abandon it for lack of time. In 2011, she won two satellite tournaments and earned a bronze medal at the Pan Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécilia Berder
Cécilia Berder (born 13 December 1989) is a French right-handed Sabre (fencing), sabre Fencing, fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympic Games, Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist. Career Berder was born in 1989 in Morlaix, and grew up in the nearby city of Quimper. A very energetic child, she was pushed by her parents toward sport. Her first choice was rock climbing, but the class was full, so she opted for fencing at Escrime Quimper Cornouaille. She first tried foil (fencing), foil, the traditional teaching weapon, but found it boring. Coach Serge Larher suggested she try sabre (fencing), sabre, even though the class had only boys. After her baccalauréat, she joined the centre for promising young athletes in Orléans, where she trained with the likes of Anne-Lise Touya and Léonore Perrus. She won the bronze medal in the 2007 Junior European Fencing Championships at Prague. In 2008, Berder was selected as reserve for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Vecchi
Irene Vecchi (10 June 1989, Livorno) is an Italian sabre fencer. She earned a bronze medal in the 2013 World Championships and 2017 World Championships, an individual bronze at the 2013 European Championships and won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Fencing Championships. She has twice competed for Italy at the Olympics, in the women's sabre individual in 2012 and 2016 and in the women's team sabre in 2016. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Sabre Life Vecchi has a degree in political science from the University of Pisa, and works as a police officer A police officer (also called policeman or policewoman, cop, officer or constable) is a Warrant (law), warranted law employee of a police, police force. In most countries, ''police officer'' is a generic term not specifying a particular rank. .... She began to fence at the age of eight; her mother worked at a fencing hall and enrolled her. References Italian female sabre fencers Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Lembach
Charlotte Lembach (born 1 April 1988) is a French right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist. Lembach competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Career Lembach was first called into the French national team for the 2009 European Championships in Plovdiv, but a hamstring injury prevented her from attending the competition. She was selected again for the 2012 European Championships in Kyiv, but did not earn a qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. After the Games, three members of the French team retired, leaving Lembach as team elder: at the age of 24 she acquired the nickname “Mamie” (“Granny”). The 2012–13 season saw her breakthrough: at Tianjin she climbed on the podium of a World Cup event, which no other French sportswomen had accomplished in two years and a half. She however failed to earn a medal in the 2013 European Championships and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
