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2006 Pan American Fencing Championships
The 2006 Pan American Fencing Championships were held in Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela from 26 June to 28 June 2006. The only team events were in men's and women's foil (fencing), foil. Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table References 2006 Annual Report of the International Fencing Federation {{Pan American Fencing Championships Pan American Fencing Championships, 2006 2006 in fencing, Pan American Fencing Championships International fencing competitions hosted by Venezuela 2006 in Venezuelan sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan American Fencing Championships
The Pan American Fencing Championships ( es, link=no, Campeonato Panamericano de Esgrima; french: link=no, Championnats Panaméricains) are an annual top-level fencing tournament organized by the Pan American Fencing Confederation. They serve as zone championships for the Fencing World Cup run by the International Fencing Federation. Editions Medals (2006-19) Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships # 2016 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2017 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2018 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2019 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2020 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2022 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - # 2023 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships - Bogotá, 2021 Pan American Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Cross
Emily Ruth Cross (born October 15, 1986) is a U.S. foil fencer who was a member of the 2008 Olympics U.S. Women's foil team. She is best known for helping win the team foil silver medal for the U.S. at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, along with teammates Erinn Smart and Hanna Thompson. Born in Seattle, Washington, Cross attended the Brearley School in New York City. Cross' mother was a high-school placement counselor of Korean descent. Her father Fred Cross, a professor in cell genetics, introduced Emily and her brother to Sam to fencing first at Metropolis Fencing Club and then at the NY Fencers Club. Her coach is Michael Petin. She graduated from Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts in Biology) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a pediatrics resident at Boston Children's Hospital. At Harvard she was Academic All-Ivy League in 2004-05, and 2005-06. She was also a co-recipient of the Radcliffe Prize as Harvard's top female athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Fencing
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Rebecca Ward
Rebecca "Becca" Ward (born February 7, 1990) is an American sabre fencer. She won the gold medal at the sabre 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Mariel Zagunis 15–11 in the final, and took bronze in both individual and team sabre events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She also won the women's NCAA national individual sabre championship three times (2009, 2011, 2012), the first in history to do so in sabre.COLLEGE FENCING: Rebecca Ward captures third NCAA title In 2015, she was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame. Personal Ward was born in , ...[...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 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, little bit 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 senior category she ... [...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 postpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Leprohon
Julie Leprohon (born November 30, 1980) is a Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... fencer. She was part of the team Canada épée team who finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics. References 1980 births Living people Canadian female épée fencers Olympic fencers for Canada Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2007 Pan American Games Fencers from Montreal Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 21st-century Canadian sportswomen Sportswomen from Quebec {{Canada-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherraine Schalm
Sherraine Schalm, formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay (born June 21, 1975), is a former top-ranked Canadian Olympic épée fencer. She is a World Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa. At the 2005 World Fencing Championships she won a bronze medal in the individual épée event, becoming the first Canadian to ever win a World Championships medal in the sport. The next season, in 2005–06, she won the overall World Cup title. Born in Brooks, Alberta, Schalm has earned the best ever results for any Canadian woman fencer at the world championships, the Olympic Games and is a four-time medallist at the Pan American Games. She has competed at four Summer Olympics. In 2000 she finished 19th in the individual event. In 2004 she finished 18th in the individual event, and fourth in the team event. Schalm published a memoir, ''Running With Swords'' (under the name Sherraine MacKay), in 2005. In the 2008 Olympic Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Hurley
Courtney Hurley (born September 30, 1990) is an American fencer. She won a bronze medal in the women's team épée alongside Maya Lawrence, Susie Scanlan, and Kelley Hurley at the 2012 Summer Olympics. A standout at the University of Notre Dame, she was a 4-time All-American. She has qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Coached by her father, Bob Hurley, Courtney has competed since age 15 with her older sister Kelley internationally: at the 2012 Summer Olympics, they were the part of the first U.S. Women's Épée Team to earn an Olympic medal, a bronze. Following the 2016 Summer Olympics, they are training arduously for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. See also *List of USFA Division I National Champions This is a list of USA Fencing The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. The USFA was founded on April 22, 1891, as the Amateur F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuleydis Ortiz Puente
Zuleydis Ortiz (born 31 January 1978) is a Cuban fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team épée events at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from .... References External links * 1978 births Living people Cuban female épée fencers Olympic fencers for Cuba Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba 20th-century Cuban women 21st-century Cuban women {{Cuba-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
