Flor Isava Fonseca

Flor Isava Fonseca (20 May 1921 – 25 July 2020)Fallece Flor Isava, la eterna dama del olimpismo venezolano   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.International Olympic Committee Factsheet, June 2012 Retrieved 9 July 2013. She was the first woman to be on the executive board in 1990.

Fonseca died on 25 July 2020, aged 99.

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