Elvira Wood (born September 21 1973 in Pongola KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African sabre fencer. At age thirty-four Wood made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where she competed in two sabre events. She is also the wife of Mike Wood who qualified for the men's épée at these Olympic games.For her first event the women's individual sabre Wood lost the first preliminary match to Canada's Sandra Sassine with a score of 2–15. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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