User:Beccamai10/sandbox

Career

Shirley Armstrong competed as a fencer under the foil discipline. Armstrong began her fencing carer as a member of the Trinity Fencing team. She participated in one Olympics the summer Olympics games in Rome 1960. She was the first Irish Female to attend the Olympics for the sport of fencing. She did not qualify for the next round of the Women’s Individual Foils. Herself and Maeve Kyle were the only two women who represented Ireland in the Olympics that year.

She represented Ireland twice in the World Fencing championships, one in Paris 1965 and the other in Vienna 1971. Prior to this in 1966 she achieved a season treble of the East of Ireland Champion, Irish open and National open. Armstrong achieved silver medals in the 1958 and 1959 South of Ireland Open Championships and claimed a bronze medal in the 1960 Irish Open Fencing Championships and in the same year she won the bronze medal in the Irish National Fencing Championships. She was awarded her first senior title in the East of Ireland Open Championships; this was held in Kilkenny in 1961. Over the years she collected nine medals at the Irish National Fencing Championships- six gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Her first National title was won in 1962 at this event. She took home an additional nine medals from the Irish Open Fencing Championships- five gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. Of these medals five of them were won at the Trinity College Gymnasium.