Elvira Wood (fencer)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Personal information | |
---|---|
Nationality | South Africa |
Born | Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | 21 September 1973
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Fencing |
Event | Sabre |
Club | Tyshler Fencing School |
Elvira Wood (born 21 September 1973 in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African sabre fencer.[1] At age thirty-four, Wood made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. She is also the wife of Mike Wood, who qualified for the men's épée at these Olympic games.
For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Wood lost the first preliminary match to Canada's Sandra Sassine, with a score of 2–15.[2] Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Shelley Gosher, Jyoti Chetty and Adele du Plooy, for the women's team sabre. Wood and her team, however, lost the seventh place match to the Canadian team (led by Sassine), with a total score of 16 touches.[3]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elvira Wood". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Women's Individual Sabre – Round of 64". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Women's Team Sabre – Placement 7–8 Official". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- 1973 births
- South African female sabre fencers
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for South Africa
- White South African people
- People from uPhongolo Local Municipality
- Living people
- All stub articles
- African fencing biography stubs
- South African martial arts biography stubs