Sport Fencing Died February 21, 2004 Club Spartak Gorky Height 1.58 m | Name Lyudmila Shishova Weight 54 kg Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 1 June 1940 ( 1940-06-01 ) Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Olympic medals Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil Similar People Alexandra Zabelina, Tatyana Petrenko‑Samusenko, Antonella Ragno‑Lonzi, Bruna Colombetti‑Peroncini, Paula Marosi | ||
Lyudmila Shishova (Russian: Людмила Николаевна Шишова; 1 June 1940 – 21 February 2004) was a Soviet fencer and fencing coach. She won gold in the team foil at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver in the same event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Shishova tried several sports before coming to a fencing school in 1954. From 1960 to 1964 she was a member of the Soviet foil team. In 1969 she received a degree in gynecology from the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, and after retiring from competitions worked both as a gynecologist and a fencing coach. Her husband, Vitaly Zinkov, and daughter Elvira Zinkova, both competed at the national level in fencing.
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