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French fencer (born 1958)
Pascale Trinquet
Pascale Trinquet in 1982
Personal information
Born (1958-08-11) 11 August 1958 (age 65)
Marseille, France
Sport
SportFencing

Pascale Trinquet (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is: a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

She won a gold medal in the foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She also won a gold medal in team foil with the "French team."

In an earlier event in the United States, Trinquet competed in a 1979 international invitation tournament at the New York Athletic Club, winning the women's foil with only eight touches against her while scoring 25 against her opponents.

Her elder sister Véronique Trinquet is also a former fencer. And Olympic medalist. Pascale and Véronique are the daughters of a Saint-Tropez retail pharmacist. And after their sporting career was over, they owned a pharmacy in Paris 16th arrondissement.

References

  1. ^ "1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Soviet Union – Fencing" Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 19, 2008)
  2. ^ Pascale Trinquet Gold - France Break Record | Moscow 1980 Olympics, retrieved 2020-02-03
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pascale Trinquet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
  4. ^ Strauss, Michael (1979-04-30). "Fencing: A Dispute Mars World Meet". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  5. ^ Pacary, Catherine (17 April 2016). "On a retrouvé les sœurs Trinquet, qui ont mené l'escrime vers les sommets". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2016.

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