Gytte Minton started fencing in her native Denmark before moving to England where, in 1926, she married barrister Harold Minton, and became a British citizen. Before World War II she was a member of the Salle Stempel, Ladies’ Cercle d’Escrime, Ladies’ London Fencing Club, Gauthier’s Penguins, and the newly formed Tassard-Parkins Fencing School. Minton won the Lady Louis Mountbatten Cup in 1931, and in 1931 and 1932 was a member of the Tassard-Parkins team that beat Bertrand’s to win the Ladies’ Inter-Salle competition. In 1937, she won the coveted Ladies’ Amateur Fencing Union’s Silver Jubilee Bowl, an event open to finalists in that season’s tournaments. She also appeared in her first international tournament that year in the foil event at the World Championships in Paris and in 1939 was scheduled to take part in the European Championships in Italy, but they were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. After the War, Minton was a member of the London Fencing Club that won the Ladies’ Foil Team Championship in 1949.
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