Sharon Monplaisir
{{Short description|American fencer}}
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Sharon Monplaisir (born November 3, 1960) is an American foil fencer. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.{{cite sports-reference |url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/sharon-monplaisir-1.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200418045116/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/sharon-monplaisir-1.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 18, 2020 |title= Sharon Monplaisir |access-date= May 21, 2011}} She was also on the gold-winning United States fencing team at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games, and was a four-time NCAA All-American fencer.{{Cite journal|last=Lamb|first=Yanick Rice|date=January 1996|title=Olympic legends|journal=Essence|volume=26|issue=9|pages=90|issn=0014-0880|via=EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier}}
Monplaisir is the subject of children's non-fiction chapter book, Sword of a Champion by Doreen and Michael Greenberg, in the Anything You Can Do... series from Wish Publishing.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/swordofchampions0000gree|title=Sword of a champion : the story of Sharon Monplaisir|last=Greenberg|first=Doreen L.|last2=Greenberg|first2=Michael A.|date=2000|publisher=Wish Pub.|isbn=1930546394|location=Terre Haute, Ind.|oclc=46896834|url-access=registration}} She is also the model/subject for the exercise book, Get a Gold Medal Butt by Gary Guerriero and Mary Leonard.
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Category:American female foil fencers
Category:Olympic fencers for the United States
Category:Fencers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers from New York City
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in fencing
Category:Fencers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Category:Fencers at the 1991 Pan American Games
Category:20th-century American sportswomen
Category:Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
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