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Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness (14 August 1910 – 24 October 1952) was a British fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The judges had awarded her the gold medal but, in a noted gesture of fair play, she informed them they had failed to count two hits achieved by her Austrian opponent Ellen Preis.[3]

Judy Guinness
winner of "fair play" in 1932
Personal information
Birth nameHeather Seymour Guinness
Full nameJudy Guinness Penn-Hughes
Nickname(s)Judy
NationalityBritish
Born(1910-08-14)14 August 1910
Dublin, Ireland
Died24 October 1952(1952-10-24) (aged 42)
Matabeleland North, Rhodesia
Sport
CountryUnited Kingdom
SportFencing
Medal record
Women's fencing
Representing  United Kingdom
Olympic Games
1932 Los AngelesFoil, individual

She was a daughter of Henry Guinness (d.1945), an Irish engineer, banker and politician. In 1934 she married the racing driver Clifton Penn-Hughes. He died in a plane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942. She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.[2]


References


  1. "Olympics Statistics: Judy Guinness". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
  2. "Judy Guinness Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. "The 10 most sporting gestures", The Guardian, 29 March 2009



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- [en] Judy Guinness

[it] Judy Guinness

Heather Seymour Guinness Penn-Hughes, meglio nota come Judy Guinness (Dublino, 14 agosto 1910 – Springhare Farm, 24 ottobre 1952), è stata una schermitrice britannica, vincitrice di una medaglia d'argento nella scherma ai giochi olimpici.

[ru] Гиннесс, Джуди

Хедер Сеймур Джуди Гиннесс (англ. Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness, 14 августа 1910 — 24 октября 1952) — британская фехтовальщица-рапиристка, призёрка Олимпийских игр и чемпионатов мира.



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