Ellen Preis
Austrian fencer
Ellen Müller-Preis (née Preis; 6 May 1912 – 18 November 2007) was a German-born Austrian Olympic-champion foil fencer.
In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year.
Fencing career
Preis was born in Berlin, and was Jewish. She moved to Vienna at the age of 18 in 1930, and began receiving fencing instruction from her aunt. In under two years she came in third in the European Championships in Vienna. She later married Dr. Müller and had two sons and a daughter, who died from whooping cough.
World and National Championships
She won three world championships (1947, 1949, and 1950) and numerous national Austrian titles (17). In 1949 Müller-Preis was named the first ever "Austrian Female Athlete of the Year."
At one point, Prof. Müller-Preis was credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the female with the longest Olympic span of any woman, competing from 1932 until 1956.
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