Daughter of Belarusian Emigrants Becomes Olympic Champion in Foil Fencing as Part of US Team
In the team event, Jacqueline Dubrovich, along with three of her colleagues in the US team, received the title of Olympic champion in foil fencing.
As reported on the official website of the 2024 Olympics, in the final, the US team defeated the Italian team with a score of 45:39. In the individual competition, Jacqueline took 18th place.
Jacqueline Dubrovich lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia University in 2016, where she studied Russian literature. Her parents emigrated from Belarus in the late 1980s.
At the Olympic Games — 2020 in Tokyo, held in 2021 due to the coronavirus epidemic, she also competed for the US team. Then in the individual competition she took 21st place after losing the first fight by one point. In the team event, the United States lost to France in the bronze medal match and ended up off the podium.
«Without the courage, perseverance and sacrifice of my parents, none of this would have been possible, — Jacqueline wrote on her page on Instagram, when she qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
«Mo and parents emigrated to this country from the Soviet Union to get the best chance at life for their children, and I know that they never in their wildest dreams could have imagined that their child would represent the United States of America at the Olympic Games,” — wrote Jacqueline.
1xBet hosts thousands of fake matches, including in Belarus. They earn astronomical sums8
1xBet hosts thousands of fake matches, including in Belarus. They earn astronomical sums
«If the West Detained Lukashenko's Agents, There Could Be an Exchange Fund.» Vechorko on Political Prisoners, Cabinet Staff Turnover, Border Situation, and Visas9292
Comments