Ilona Elek

Ilona Elek, also known as Ilona Elek-Schacherer, was a Hungarian Olympic fencer, born on 17 May 1907 in Budapest and died on 24 July 1988. Competing in foil, she won the Olympic gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Games, the first Hungarian woman to win an Olympic gold medal, and repeated it in 1948 in London at the age of 41, making her the first woman to win two Olympic individual foil titles; she took silver in 1952 in Helsinki. She won world championship gold in women's foil in 1934, 1935 and 1951, and the article states that she won more international fencing titles than any other woman. She was awarded the Robert Feyerick Cup and the Olympic Order, was honorary president of the International Fencing Federation in 1983, and later directed a trade company. The account here rests on her English Wikipedia article.