Pascale Trinquet

Pascale Trinquet
Personal information
Born (1958-08-11) 11 August 1958
Marseille, France
Sport
Sport Fencing

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.[1] She also won a gold medal in team foil with the French team.[2]

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.[3]

References

  1. "1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Soviet Union – Fencing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 19, 2008)
  2. "Pascale Trinquet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
  3. 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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