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Lyudmila Shishova

Lyudmila Shishova
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Personal information
Born (1940-06-01)1 June 1940
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Club Spartak Gorky

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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