Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic
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Full name | Ecaterina Clara Stahl-Iencic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Kati[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Satu Mare,Romania | 31 July 1946||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 November 2009 Satu Mare,Romania | (aged 63)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CSA Steaua[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach | Alexandru Csipler Andrei Valce Zilaghi Iosif[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic(31 July 1946 – 26 November 2009) was a Romanianfoilfencer, world champion in 1975. She competed at five Olympics from 1964 to 1980,[2]winning team bronze medals in 1968 and 1972.[4][5]
Biography[edit]
She was born Katalin Jencsik. (Hungarian name order Jencsik Katalin) She belonged to the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.[5]she took up fencing when she was 14 at local club Unio Satu Mare under the coaching of Alexandru Csipler.[6]There she became friends withIleana Gyulai,with whom she would fence in the Romanian national team, and with József Szepessy, who would become team world champion with Germany in 1973.[1]
In 1964, at 18 years, Stahl won the Romanian national championship with Unio, and transferred toCSA Steauain Bucharest.[6]The same year, she took part in her first Olympics in theteam foil event.Romania was defeated by the Soviet Union in quarter-finals and finished 5th after prevailing over France. In 1965 she won the Junior World Championships in Rotterdam. She also earned a team silver medal with Romania at the senior1965 World Fencing Championships.She earned her first major individual medal, a bronze, at the1966 World Fencing Championships.She would earn two individual medals, including gold in 1975, and seven team medals at the World Championships throughout her career.[6]
In 1967, Stahl married István Stahl, a sports journalist at Hungarian-language magazineFriss Újság.[6]The couple had two daughters, Gabriela andCristina,who became a foil fencer too. In 1968, Stahl took part in her second Olympics. This time, she earned a team bronze medal, along withAna Pascu,Ileana Drîmba,Olga SzaboandMaria Vicol.[7]She took another bronze medal at the1972 Summer Olympicswith the same teammates, Maria Vicol being replaced by Ileana Gyulai.[8]
After her retirement in 1984 Stahl became a fencing coach at CS Satu Mare, in her home town.[6]She trained amongst others Olympic silver medallistRita Königand her own daughter, OlympianCristina.[3]She was named in 2006honorary citizenof Satu Mare.[9]She died on 26 November 2009 ofcolon cancer.[1]Her name was given in 2015 to the Satu Mare Cup, a competition of the European women's foil circuit for cadets.[10]
References[edit]
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- ^abc"Noiembrie negru".Gazeta Sporturilor.27 November 2009.
- ^abc"Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic Olympic Results".sports-reference.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-04-17.Retrieved2010-12-20.
- ^abEcaterina Stahl.Romanian Olympic Committee
- ^"Olympics Statistics: Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic".databaseolympics.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-10-18.Retrieved2010-12-20.
- ^abEgyetemes magyar sport – Lapozgató (53.) - 2013. december 30., hétfő - Háromszék, független napilap Sepsiszentgyörgy.3szek.ro. Retrieved on 2016-10-01.
- ^abcde"Adio, doamna Stahl".ProSport(in Romanian). 28 November 2009.
- ^"România la Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 1968"(in Romanian). Agerpres. 23 July 2012.
- ^"România la Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 1972"(in Romanian). 23 July 2012.
- ^"Gyászol a szatmári sport, elhunyt Stahl Katalin"(in Hungarian). Szatmár.ro. 26 November 2009.
- ^Daniel Remeș (29 January 2015)."Doi foști mari campioni ai scrimei românești, Ecaterina Stahl și Vasile Costa vor fi omagiați săptămâna viitoare la Satu Mare"(in Romanian). Romanian Fencing Federation.
- 1946 births
- 2009 deaths
- Romanian female fencers
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Romanian people of German descent
- Sportspeople from Satu Mare
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Romania