Ilona Elek Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Ilona Elek / Sada Jacobson Fencers Riposte like a Girl http://jwa.org/powercouples/elek-jacobson Ilona Elek Hailed as one of the greatest female fencers of all time, Ilona Elek won her first Olympic gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/elek-ilona