Ellen Osiier

Danish fencer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroDanish fencer
PlacesDenmark
wasAthlete Fencer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth13 August 1890, Hjørring
Death6 September 1962Copenhagen (aged 72 years)
Star signLeo
Family
Spouse:Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier
The details

Biography

Ellen Osiier (August 13, 1890 – September 6, 1962) was a Danish foil fencer.
The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing. Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal as she was undefeated in the event. With this victory, Osiier became the Olympics' first woman fencing champion.
Her husband, Ivan Osiier, fenced in seven Olympics, won a silver medal in individual épée for Denmark at the 1912 Olympics, and won 25 Danish national championships in three weapons.

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