Lyudmila Shishova

Lyudmila Shishova

Personal information
Born	1 June 1940 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died	21 February 2004 (aged 63) Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Club	Spartak Gorky
Medal record Women's fencing Competitor for  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome Foil, women's team 1964 Tokyo Foil, women's team

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]

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.
2. "Lyudmila Shishova Olympic Results". sports-reference.com.
3. Шишова Людмила Николаевна. 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