Judy Guinness

Judy Guinness
	winner of "fair play" in 1932
Personal information
Birth name	Heather Seymour Guinness
Full name	Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes
Nickname	Judy
Nationality	United Kingdom
Born	14 August 1910; Dublin, Ireland
Died	24 October 1952 (aged 42); Matabeleland North, Rhodesia
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Fencing
Medal record
Women's fencing
Representing United Kingdom
Olympic Games

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]

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 pane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942. She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.^[2]

References

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

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[databaseolympics-1] "Olympics Statistics: Judy Guinness". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2010.

[sports-reference-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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