Sharon Monplaisir
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| Born | November 3, 1960 New York City, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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Sharon Mary Monplaisir (born November 3, 1960) is an American foil fencer. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] She was also on the gold-winning United States fencing team at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games, and was a four-time NCAA All-American fencer.[2]
Monplaisir is the subject of children's non-fiction chapter book, Sword of a Champion by Doreen and Michael Greenberg, in the Anything You Can Do... series from Wish Publishing.[3] She is also the model/subject for the exercise book, Get a Gold Medal Butt by Gary Guerriero and Mary Leonard.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sharon Monplaisir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
- ↑ Lamb, Yanick Rice (January 1996). "Olympic legends". Essence. 26 (9): 90. ISSN 0014-0880 – via EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier.
- ↑ Greenberg, Doreen L.; Greenberg, Michael A. (2000). Sword of a champion : the story of Sharon Monplaisir. Terre Haute, Ind.: Wish Pub. ISBN 1930546394. OCLC 46896834.
External links
[edit]- Sharon Monplaisir at Olympedia
- Sharon Monplaisir at InterSportStats
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