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Ruth White (born July 16, 1951) is an American doctor and retired foil fencer .
Life and career [ edit ]
White was born on July 16, 1951[1] in Baltimore , Maryland where she faced racial discrimination at school for being African-American.[2]
In 1969, White became the first African-American to win a US fencing championship. She also competed at the 1971 Pan American Games where she won a gold medal in the team foil event and silver medal in the individual foil event.[2]
She was the first African-American women to represent the US in fencing at the Olympics.[2] foil events at the 1972 Summer Olympics .[3]
Soon after she competed at the Olympics, White left fencing to go into medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and went on to work in internal medicine .[2]
White was inducted into NYU's Hall of Fame in 1989 and into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame in 2001.[2]
References [ edit ]
^ "Ruth White Olympic Results" . sports-reference.com . Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2011 .
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