Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu

Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu
File:Ana Pascu 2013 Fencing World Championships.jpg At the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born	(1944-09-22) 22 September 1944 Bucharest, Romania
Weapon(s)	Foil
Hand	Right-handed
Retired	1976
Medal record Women's fencing Representing Romania Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City Team Foil 1972 Munich Team Foil World Championships 1969 Havana Team Foil 1970 Ankara Team Foil 1967 Montreal Team Foil 1971 Vienna Individual Foil 1973 Gothenburg Team Foil 1974 Grenoble Team Foil 1975 Budapest Team Foil

Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu (born 22 September 1944) is a Romanian fencer and sport leader. She won a bronze medal in the women's team foil events at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Biography

The daughter of the vice-president of the Romanian Table Tennis Federation, Pascu was fascinated as a child by the world of high performance sport and the atmosphere of style and refinement it conveyed at the time – the early 1950s. Her first sport idols were table tennis players Angelica Rozeanu and Sari Szasz, then at the peak of their careers. When Pascu's father took a position at the Romanian Fencing Federation, she transferred her interests to the sport, which was practiced at the Athenaeum of Bucharest, and whose athletes spoke French. At the age of eleven, she began to take fencing lessons with Italian master Angelo Pellegrini. Future champion Maria Vicol featured amongst his other pupils.

Pascu won the 1963 Junior World Championship in Ghent, a result she considers as the best of her career. She joined the senior national team, which featured Maria Vicol and Marina Stanca. They were later joined by Olga Szabo, Ileana Gyulai, Ecaterina Stahl and Suzana Ardeleanu. Romania was one of the only countries at the time offering centralised training in fencing: the national team trained twice a day, nine months a year. She made a brilliant career with the Romanian team: she won seven medals in the World Championships and took part in five Olympic Games, earning two bronze medals in 1968 and 1972. She was awarded the title of master emeritus in sports (Maestru Emerit al Sportului) for her performance.

She retired in 1976, after the Summer Olympics of Montreal. In 1981, she gave birth to a son, Alexandru. She led the Romanian Fencing Federation from 1982 to 2013, when she opted not to run for a new term, leaving the road open to Mihai Covaliu. She now serves as honorary president of the FRS. She is also vice-president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee since 2004.

Pascu was a member of the Rules Commission of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) from 1984 to 1996 and sat at the Refereeing Commission from 1996 to 2004. She is a member of the executive committee of the FIE since 2000 and a vice-president since 2004.