Valentina Alexandrovna Prudskova

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Valentina Alexandrovna Prudskova medal table
Rastworowa, Gorochowa, Petrenko-Samusenko, Sabelina, Schischowa and Prudskowa (1960)
Rastworowa , Gorochowa , Petrenko-Samusenko , Sabelina , Schischowa and Prudskowa (1960)

Foil fencer

Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1960 Rome team
silver 1964 Tokyo team
Fencing World Championships
gold 1958 Philadelphia team
silver 1959 Budapest team
gold 1961 Turin team
silver 1962 Buenos Aires team
gold 1965 Paris team
bronze 1965 Paris singles
gold 1966 Moscow team

Valentina Alexandrovna Prudskowa ( Russian Валентина Александровна Прудскова *  27. December 1938 in Yershov , Saratov Oblast ; † 23. August 2020 ) was a Soviet Foil - fencer . She won gold and silver medals at the Olympics .

successes

She was a member of the Soviet national team from 1957 to 1968. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , she won the gold medal in the foil team competition with the Soviet team . At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , she won the silver medal in the foil team competition with the Soviet team .

With the Soviet team, Prudskowa was four times world champion ( 1958 , 1961 , 1965 and 1966 ) and twice silver medalist ( 1959 and 1962 ). In 1965 she also won the bronze medal in the foil individual.

Prudskowa was awarded the honorary title of "Honored Master of Sport" in the Soviet Union in 1960 and the Soviet Union Medal in 1971. She played for the Burewestnik Saratov club.

Web links

Commons : Valentina Prudskowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Саратовский областной центр спортивной подготовки (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Prudskova, Valentina Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Прудскова, Валентина Александровна (Russian); Valentina Aleksandrovna Prudskova (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet Olympic champion in foil fencing
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Yershov , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 2020