Judy Guinness Explained

Judy Guinness
Birth Name:Heather Seymour Guinness
Fullname:Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes
Nickname:Judy
Nationality:British
Birth Date:14 August 1910
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Death Place:Matabeleland North, Rhodesia
Country:United Kingdom
Sport:Fencing
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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]

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Olympics Statistics: Judy Guinness . 3 May 2010 . databaseolympics.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017032818/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=GUINNJUD01 . 17 October 2012 .
  2. Web site: Judy Guinness Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230955/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/judy-guinness-penn-hughes-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 2 October 2019 . sports-reference.com.
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/29/10-sporting-gestures "The 10 most sporting gestures"