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Born |
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia |
1 June 1940|||||||||||||||
Died | 21 February 2004 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia |
(aged 63)|||||||||||||||
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||
Club | Spartak Gorky | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
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.