Delila Hatuel

[2] In July 2008, at the 2008 European Fencing Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, she defeated Olympic foil champion Valentina Vezzali, but injured her knee at the end of the bout.[5][9] She underwent treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin, Israel, so that she would be well enough to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[9] Hatuel, then ranked 11th in the world, represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, in foil fencing, at 27 years of age.[3][6] She came in 19th, losing 10–9 to reigning world title holder Viktoriya Nikishina of Russia, who was part of the gold medal-winning Russian team.[16]` Hatuel was ranked 9th in the world in 2016, and qualified to fence in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio in Women's foil by virtue of her performance at the Championnats De Qualification Europeans on April 16, 2016, in Prague, Czech Republic.
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