Sport Fencing Name Judy Guinness | Role Olympic athlete | |
Full name Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes Olympic medals Fencing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's foil | ||
Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness (14 August 1910 – 24 October 1952) was a British fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The judges had awarded her the gold medal but, in a noted gesture of fair play, she informed them they had failed to count two hits achieved by her Austrian opponent Ellen Preis.
She was a daughter of Henry Guinness (d.1945), an Irish engineer, banker and politician.
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