Adele du Plooy (born 11 October 1980) is a South African sabre fencer. Du Plooy represented

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at the

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, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, du Plooy lost the first preliminary match to Ukraine's Halyna Pundyk, with a score of 7–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Shelley Gosher, Elvira Wood and

Jyoti Chetty Jyoti Chetty (born January 26, 1982, in Pretoria) is a South African sabre fencer. Chetty represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital ...

, for the women's team sabre. Du Plooy and her team, however, lost the seventh place match to the Canadian team (led by

Sandra Sassine Sandra Sassine (born September 28, 1979) is a Canadian fencer. She was born in Chibougamau, Quebec. She competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the women's sabre in 2008, she competed in section 3, beati ...

), with a total score of 16 touches.

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NBC Olympics Profile
* * South African female sabre fencers Living people Olympic fencers for South Africa Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Johannesburg Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent South African people of German descent 1980 births 21st-century South African sportswomen {{SouthAfrica-fencing-bio-stub