Judy Guinness

{{Short description|British fencer (1910–1952)}}

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| name = Judy Guinness

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| caption = winner of "fair play" in 1932

| birth_name = Heather Seymour Guinness

| fullname = Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes

| nickname = Judy

| nationality = British

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|8|14|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|10|24|1910|8|14|df=yes}}

| death_place = Matabeleland North, Rhodesia

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| country = United Kingdom

| sport = Fencing

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Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness (14 August 1910 – 24 October 1952) was a British fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=GUINNJUD01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Judy Guinness |accessdate=3 May 2010 |work=databaseolympics.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017032818/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=GUINNJUD01 |archivedate=17 October 2012 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/judy-guinness-penn-hughes-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230955/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/judy-guinness-penn-hughes-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Judy Guinness Olympic Results |accessdate=2 October 2019 |work=sports-reference.com}} The judges had awarded her the gold medal but, in a noted gesture of fair play, she informed them they had failed to count two hits achieved by her Austrian opponent Ellen Preis.[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/29/10-sporting-gestures "The 10 most sporting gestures"], The Guardian, 29 March 2009

She was a daughter of Henry Guinness (d.1945), an Irish engineer, banker and politician. In 1934 she married the racing driver Clifton Penn-Hughes. He died in a plane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942. She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.