Valentina Prudskova

Valentina Prudskova

Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	23 August 2020(2020-08-23) (aged 81)[1] Saratov, Russia
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Club	Burevestnik Saratov[2]
Coached by	Mikhail Sazonov[3]
Retired	1968[3]
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome Foil, team 1964 Tokyo Foil, team World Fencing Championships 1958 Philadelphia Foil, team 1961 Turin Foil, team 1965 Paris Foil, team 1966 Moscow Foil, team 1959 Budapest Foil, team 1962 Buenos Aires Foil, team 1965 Paris Foil, individual

Valentina Aleksandrovna Prudskova (Russian: Валентина Александровна Прудскова; 27 December 1938 – 23 August 2020) was a Soviet fencer.^[4] She won gold in the women's team foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver in the same event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.^[5][6]

Prudskova's mother, Zinaida Nikolaevna Prudskova, was a farmer and housewife. Her father, Aleksandr Petrovich Prudskov, worked at railways and fought in the Winter War and World War II; he died of pneumonia in 1950, aged 40. Shortly after that, his family moved from Yershov to Saratov, where Prudskova started training in fencing, together with her cousin. Her career advanced in 1954 when she won her first national title.^[3]

Prudskova was a member of the Soviet foil team from 1957

Prudskova had a daughter, Marina, who worked as an arts teacher.[3]

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