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Pascale Trinquet

Pascale Trinquet

French fencer (born 1958)

Pascale Trinquet (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

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She won a gold medal in the foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1][2] She also won a gold medal in team foil with the French team.[3]

In an earlier event in the United States, Trinquet competed in a 1979 international invitation tournament at the New York Athletic Club, winning the women's foil with only eight touches against her while scoring 25 against her opponents.[4]

Her elder sister Véronique Trinquet is also a former fencer and Olympic medalist. Pascale and Véronique are the daughters of a Saint-Tropez retail pharmacist, and after their sporting career was over, they owned a pharmacy in Paris 16th arrondissement.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Soviet Union – Fencing" Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 19, 2008)
  2. [2]
    Pascale Trinquet Gold - France Break Record | Moscow 1980 Olympics, retrieved 2020-02-03
  3. [3]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pascale Trinquet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
  4. [4]
    Strauss, Michael (1979-04-30). "Fencing: A Dispute Mars World Meet". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  5. [5]
    Pacary, Catherine (17 April 2016). "On a retrouvé les sœurs Trinquet, qui ont mené l'escrime vers les sommets". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2016.


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