Nzingha Prescod
Nzingha Prescod | |||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born |
Brooklyn, New York | 14 August 1992||||||||||||
Weapon(s) | foil | ||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||
Club | Peter Westbrook Foundation | ||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Buckie Leach | ||||||||||||
FIE Ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nzingha Prescod (born August 14, 1992) is an American female foil fencer,[1] bronze medallist at the 2015 World Fencing Championships.
She took part in the individual event of the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she was defeated 10-15 in the table of 32 by Hungary's Aida Mohamed. In the team event team USA lost to South Korea in the quarter-finals and finished 6th after the placement matches.
Prescod graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2010 and Columbia University in 2015.[2]
References
- ↑ "Nzingha Prescod". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
- ↑ "Nzingha Prescod". Team USA. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
External links
- Profile at US Fencing
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