Nzingha Prescod | |||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born |
Brooklyn, New York |
14 August 1992 ||||||||||||
Weapon(s) | foil | ||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||
Club | Peter Westbrook Foundation | ||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Buckie Leach | ||||||||||||
FIE Ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nzingha Prescod (born August 14, 1992) is an American female foil fencer, bronze medallist at the 2015 World Fencing Championships.
She took part in the individual event of the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she was defeated 10-15 in the table of 32 by Hungary's Aida Mohamed. In the team event team USA lost to South Korea in the quarter-finals and finished 6th after the placement matches.
Prescod graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2010 and Columbia University in 2015.