{{Short description|French fencer (born 1958)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Pascale Trinquet | image = | caption = Pascale Trinquet in 1982 | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|8|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Marseille, France | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | website = | country = | sport = Fencing | event = | collegeteam = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's fencing }} {{MedalCountry | {{FRA}} }} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalGold | 1980 Moscow | Individual foil }} {{MedalGold | 1980 Moscow | Team foil }} {{MedalBronze | 1984 Los Angeles | Team foil }} | show-medals = yes }}
'''Pascale Trinquet''' (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.
She won a gold medal in the foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.<ref name=db-ol-FEN1980>[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=20&sp=FEN "1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Soviet Union – Fencing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916105503/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=20&sp=FEN |date=2008-09-16 }} ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on June 19, 2008)</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Pascale Trinquet Gold - France Break Record {{!}} Moscow 1980 Olympics| date=20 July 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzp93yP7KOE|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref> She also won a gold medal in team foil with the French team.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/pascale-trinquet-hachin-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201456/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/pascale-trinquet-hachin-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Pascale Trinquet |accessdate=2011-04-23}}</ref>
In an earlier event in the United States, Trinquet competed in a 1979 international invitation tournament at the New York Athletic Club, winning the women's foil with only eight touches against her while scoring 25 against her opponents.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/30/archives/fencinga-dispute-mars-world-meet.html|title=Fencing: A Dispute Mars World Meet|last=Strauss|first=Michael|date=1979-04-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>
Her elder sister Véronique Trinquet is also a former fencer and Olympic medalist. Pascale and Véronique are the daughters of a Saint-Tropez retail pharmacist, and after their sporting career was over, they owned a pharmacy in Paris 16th arrondissement.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/visuel/2016/04/17/on-a-retrouve-les-s-urs-trinquet_4903774_3242.html |title=On a retrouvé les sœurs Trinquet, qui ont mené l'escrime vers les sommets|newspaper=Le Monde|first=Catherine |last=Pacary |date=17 April 2016|access-date=26 April 2016}}</ref>
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