Lyudmila Shishova

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.[1][2]

Lyudmila Shishova
Personal information
Born(1940-06-01)1 June 1940
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died21 February 2004(2004-02-21) (aged 63)
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
ClubSpartak Gorky
Medal record
Women's fencing
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1960 RomeFoil, women's team
1964 TokyoFoil, women's team

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,[3] 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.[4]

References
  1. "Olympics Statistics: Lyudmila Shishova". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012.
  2. "Lyudmila Shishova Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  3. Шишова Людмила Николаевна Archived 22 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine. mfsospartak.ru
  4. Natalia Tselischeva (26 January 2010) МАМА нижегородского фехтования. 5sport.ru
Soviet foil team at the 1960 Olympics, Shishova is 2nd or 3rd from right
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