Flor Isava Fonseca

Flor Isava Fonseca (20 May 1921 – 25 July 2020) 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. She was the first woman to be on the executive board in 1990.

Fonseca died on 25 July 2020, aged 99.

References

1 2 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 2 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.