Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin

Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin medal table
fencing
France
Olympic games
silver	Montreal 1976	Foil team
gold	Moscow 1980	Foil team
bronze	Los Angeles 1984	Foil team

Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin (born April 15, 1958 in Bordeaux ) is a former French foil fencer .

successes

Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin was part of the French team at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , 1980 in Moscow , 1984 in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul . In 1976 she reached the final for the gold medal, unbeaten in the team competition, which the Soviet Union won 9-2, so that Latrille-Gaudin won the silver medal together with Brigitte Gapais-Dumont , Claudette Herbster-Josland , Christine Muzio and Véronique Trinquet . In 1980 she also reached the final against the Soviet Union with the French team without defeat and this time prevailed 9: 6. Together with Isabelle Boéri-Bégard , Christine Muzio, Véronique Brouquier and Pascale Trinquet , she became Olympic champion . At the 1984 games, she and the team lost to Romania in the semi-finals , but secured the bronze medal against Italy in the final battle. In 1988 she missed another medal win as seventh in the team competition. In the individual competitions, she was 21st in 1976, fifth in 1980, eighth in 1984 and 26th in 1988.

In addition to fencing, Latrille-Gaudin worked as a flight attendant . In 1993 she bought a company that breeds and sells medicinal leeches .

Web links

• Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )