Olga Szabó-Orbán

Olga Szabó-Orbán medal table
Olga Szabó-Orbán (left, 1960s)
fencing
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

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• Olga Szabó-Orbán in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )