Nancy Uranga Romagosa

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Nancy Uranga Romagosa (born August 17, 1954 , † October 6, 1976 in Bridgetown , Barbados ) was a Cuban foil fencer . She took part in the fencing tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics and died in the same year in the time bomb attack on Cubana flight 455 over the Caribbean Sea shortly before the Barbadian capital Bridgetown.

life and career

Nancy Uranga comes from the sugar factory in Pinar del Río , the capital of the province of the same name in western Cuba, named after the Cuban author Pablo de la Torriente Brau . The biology student at the University of Havana was considered one of the best fencers in her country and took part in various international events and tournaments in her sport from 1972. While still young, she attended tournaments in countries such as the GDR , Panama , Mexico , Hungary , Italy and Canada .

In 1975 she took part in the fencing tournament of the Pan American Games in 1975 in Mexico City , where she remained without medals, but her teammate Margarita Rodríguez gold in the individual and the women's team consisting of María Esther García , Milady Tack-Fang , Marlene Font and the aforementioned Margarita Rodríguez also won the gold medal. The following year Uranga took part in the fencing tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . There she could not prevail against the overwhelming competition and clearly lost the first four duels against the Belgian Marie-Paule Van Eyck , the Slovak Katarína Lokšová-Ráczová , the Soviet Olga Knjasewa and the Swede Kerstin Palm , whereupon she on the 47th and so eliminated the penultimate place in the final ranking.

In the same year, Uranga, who was pregnant at the time, took part in a Caribbean-Central American fencing tournament in Guyana , where she had flown with a 24-strong Cuban selection, consisting mainly of young athletes. On the return flight, the Douglas DC- 8-43 with 73 people on board was brought down by a time bomb attack; all people on board died in the crash of Cubana flight 455 into the Caribbean Sea on the coast of the Barbadian capital Bridgetown , where the plane had recently landed. In memory of the victims of this attack, which was considered the most serious aviation attack on the American continent up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , a memorial in the form of an obelisk was erected not far from the accident site near the beach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JUEGOSPAN AMERICANOS - PAN AMERICAN GAMES Resultados - Results Florete - Foil (Spanish / English; many typing errors in the names), accessed on January 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Murder in Paradise - A CounterPunch Special Report on the Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 , accessed January 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Luis Posada Carriles… how dare the United States government protect this man! ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.williambowles.info
  4. ^ 38th Anniversary of the terrorist attack on Cubana Airline Flight CU-455 , accessed January 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Uranga Romagosa, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uranga, Nancy (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1954
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1976
Place of death Bridgetown , Barbados