Olga Szabó-Orbán
Olga Szabó-Orbán medal table |
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Olga Szabó-Orbán (left, 1960s) |
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Romania | ||
Olympic games | ||
silver | Melbourne 1956 | foil |
bronze | Mexico City 1968 | Foil team |
bronze | Munich 1972 | Foil team |
World championships | ||
bronze | Turin 1961 | Foil team |
gold | Buenos Aires 1962 | foil |
silver | Paris 1965 | foil |
silver | Paris 1965 | Foil team |
bronze | Montreal 1967 | Foil team |
gold | Havana 1969 | Foil team |
bronze | Ankara 1970 | foil |
silver | Ankara 1970 | Foil team |
Olga Szabó-Orbán (* 9. October 1938 in Cluj as Olga Orban ) is a former Romanian foil fencer .
successes
Olga Szabó-Orbán won bronze at the individual world championships in 1970 in Ankara , silver in Paris in 1965 and gold in Buenos Aires in 1962 . With the team she won the title in Havana in 1969 and two further silver and bronze medals. She took part in five Olympic Games . At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , she reached the individual finals, in which she finished first with six wins together with Gillian Sheen . In the jump-off she was defeated by Sheen and thus received the silver medal. In 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo , she placed in the individual and team competitions in the top ten, as well as in the individual in 1968 in Mexico City . In the team competition, she moved into the semi-finals together with Ana Derșidan , Ileana Gyulai , Ecaterina Iencic and Maria Vicol , in which the Romanian team lost to Hungary . In the battle for bronze she then prevailed against France . Also at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , she completed the team competition on the bronze rank.
Web links
- Olga Szabó-Orbán in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Szabó-Orbán, Olga |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orbán, Olga |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian foil fencer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj , Romania |