Helga straw

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Helga Stroh (born March 4, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German fencer, Olympic participant and bronze medalist at the 1957 World Championships . She fought for the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt .

successes

With the women's floret team (together with Helmi Höhle , Ilse Keydel , Else Ommerborn and Heidi Schmid ), Stroh took third place at the World Championships in Paris in 1957 . At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , straw was again a member of the foil team, which came fourth behind the Soviet Union, Hungary and Italy. Your home club, FC Hermannia Frankfurt, won two German team championships in the 1950s , but the exact team line-up is not known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the World Fencing Championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Helga Stroh in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).
personal data
SURNAME Straw, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main