Alexandra Zabelina
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Alexandra Ivanovna Zabelina (Template:Langx; 11 March 1937 – 27 March 2022) was a Soviet fencer. She won gold medals in the team foil at the 1960, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Between 1956 and 1971 Zabelina won eight team and two individual world titles in the foil.[3] She won the individual Silver Prize at the 1961 and 1966 world championships and team Silver Prize in 1959, 1962, 1967, and 1969. She missed the 1964 Summer Olympics because she was expecting her son.[4]
Zabelina first trained in gymnastics, but had to quit due to an injury. In retirement she worked as a fencing coach. Her students included the Olympic champion Maria Mazina.[4]
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- 1937 births
- 2022 deaths
- Russian female foil fencers
- Soviet female foil fencers
- Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Fencers from Moscow
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Russian sportswomen