Lyudmila Shishova
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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.[1][2]
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Born | (1940-06-01)1 June 1940 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 February 2004(2004-02-21) (aged 63) Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Spartak Gorky | |||||||||||||||||
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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,[3] 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.[4]