Irene Camber

Irene Camber ( born February 12, 1926 in Trieste, later Irene Corno ) is a former Italian foil fencer. She was Olympic champion, world champion and two-time Italian champion.

Irene Camber difference in their first Olympic participation in 1948 in London in the semifinals. Four years later she won at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, the gold medal ahead of the Hungarian Ilona Elek defending champion and was the first Italian Olympic fencing champion. The team competition was for women only from 1960 to the Olympic program, so a world championship for this competition was held in 1952, when the Italian team won the bronze medal behind Hungary and France.

At the World Championships in 1953 in Brussels, she won the first world title for an Italian fencer, with the team as the year before she received the bronze medal. In 1954 he won the silver medal behind the Hungarians, 1955 erfocht the team a bronze medal. The following year, Irene Camber paused due to pregnancy.

In her comeback she won the bronze medal in the individual competition at the World Championships in 1957. With the Italian team in the cast Cristiana Bortolotti, Irene Camber, Velleda Cesari, Bruna Colombetti, Leopolda Predaroli and Jenny Zanelli she won the world title against the team from the Federal Republic of Germany. Camber, Cesari and Colombetti belonged together with Claudia and Antonella Pasini Ragno Lonzi to the team that erfocht in Rome at the Olympic debut of women's competition for the foil team bronze in 1960. Your last major medal won Irene Camber at the 1962 World Cup in Buenos Aires. At the Olympic Games in 1964 she succumbed to the Italian team in the battle for the bronze medal, the team from the Federal Republic of Germany.

Irene Camber, who had worked during her career as a chemist at Montedison in Lissone in Milan, was later Italian national coach. Twenty years after her own Olympic victory she led in 1972 Antonella Ragno to Olympic victory.