Flor Isava Fonseca

Flor Isava Fonseca (20 May 1921 – 25 July 2020)^[1] was a Venezuelan sportswoman, journalist and writer. She was the vice president of the Venezuelan Red Cross.

In 1981, Isava-Fonseca and Finnish Pirjo Häggman were the first women to be elected to the International Olympic Committee.^[2] She was the first woman to be on the executive board in 1990.^[3]

Fonseca died on 25 July 2020, aged 99.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Fallece Flor Isava, la eterna dama del olimpismo venezolano (in Spanish)
↑ International Olympic Committee Factsheet, June 2012 Retrieved 9 July 2013.
↑ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly (2002). Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic movement. p. 441. ISBN 9780313322785.

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[death-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Fallece Flor Isava, la eterna dama del olimpismo venezolano (in Spanish)

[2] International Olympic Committee Factsheet, June 2012 Retrieved 9 July 2013.

[3] Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly (2002). Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic movement. p. 441. ISBN 9780313322785.

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