Paula Marosi

Paula Marosi medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic games
gold	Tokyo 1964	Foil team
silver	Mexico City 1968	Foil team
World championships
gold	Buenos Aires 1962	Foil team
silver	Moscow 1966	Foil team

Paula Marosi-Földessy (* 3. November 1936 in Budapest as Paula Marosi ) is a former Hungarian foil fencer .

Life

Paula Marosi was world champion with the team in Buenos Aires in 1962 and took second place with her in Moscow in 1966 . She took part in two Olympic Games : At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , she met the Soviet Union with the Hungarian team in the finals and was victorious 9: 7. Together with Lídia Dömölky-Sákovics , Katalin Juhász , Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi and Ildikó Ujlakiné-Rejtő , she became Olympic champion . In 1968 in Mexico City they moved into the team competition again in the final against the Soviet Union , which was lost 3: 9.

Her brother József Marosi was also an Olympic fencer. She was married to former long jumper Ödön Földessy , who won Olympic bronze in 1952 , until his death in June 2020 .

Web links

• Paula Marosi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )