Eve Davies was already 44 when she made her one and only appearance at the Olympic Games as a member of the women’s foil team at the Mexico City Games of 1968. She was twice runner-up at the British championships behind Olympic champion Gillian Sheen and appeared at 5 World Championships (1954-57 & 1959). She also went to the 1972 Olympic Games as an official with the British fencing team. Davies went on to have a long career in the administrative side of the sport where she served as president and later chairman of the Ladies’ Amateur Fencing Union between 1973 and 1981 and as a vice-president of British Fencing.
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