Donna Stone, Olympian and champion epeeist from New Jersey. Donna Stone was 5th in the world in 1989.
| Donna Stone, Epeeist 5th in the World1987 US National Champion – Women’s Epee 1987 US Pan American Team – Women’s Epee – 7th place Individual 1988 US Women’s Epee Criterion Team 1989 World Cup Finalist – Women’s Epee – Kattowice, Poland 8th; Ipswitch, England 4th 1989 US World Team – 5th place Individual Women’s Epee 1989 US Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year 1990 US National Champion – Women’s Epee 1990 US National Team – Women’s Epee 1990 US Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year 1991 World Cup Finalist – Women’s Epee – Goetberg, Sweden – 6th 1991 US Pan American Team – Women’s Epee – Gold Medal Team – 4th place Individual 1991 US World Team – Women’s Epee 1994 US National Champion – Women’s Epee 1994 US World Team – Women’s Epee 1995 US Pan American Team – Women’s Epee – Gold Medal Team 1995 US World Team – Women’s Epee
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Donna Stone followed a stellar finish in the 1989 world championships with her first division 1 women’s epee national title in three years Thursday at the 1990 US Fencing Association National Championships at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Stone, a 33 year old physical therapist from Belleville, N.J., finished fifth in the 1989 world championships—the best by an American woman in more than four decades. She entered the US meet as the nation’s top-ranked competitor in women’s epee. Down 4-3 in the final bout of her best-of-three semifinal match against Sue Badders of Portland, Ore., Stone took the last two touches to win the match. 5-4, 4-5, 5-4. She had less trouble in the finals against sixth-ranked Barbara Turpin of Portland, winning the slower bout by a straight two-bout score of 5-1, 5-2. The New York fencers club won its second team title of the national tournament as it recaptured the men’s team foil championship it lost last year, beating Yale in the final 9-5. The nine-day national championships continue today wit the finals in the women’s team epee and division 2 saber. The division 1 men’s epee is set for 5:30 p.m., Saturday, with the under 19 men’s foil following later that evening.
Donna Stone and Jerzy Grzynsky of Salle Santelli, New Jersey
Donna Stone – Fifth in the World
Cover of American Fencing magazine, 1989
