Judith Bain

Judith Bain
née Herriott

Personal information
Nationality	British (Scottish)
Born	(1944-10-11) 11 October 1944 (age 81) Tain, Scotland
Height	160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event	Foil
Club	Glasgow Fencing Club Pauleons Fencing Club
Medal record Fencing Representing  Scotland British Commonwealth Games 1970 Edinburgh foil team

Judith Margaret Bain née Herriott (born 11 October 1944) is a British fencer who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Biography

Born Judith Herriot, she began fencing at Glasgow High School.^[2]

Under her maiden name of Herriot, she represented the Scotland team^[3] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where she participated in the foil event.^[4]

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she participated in the women's individual and team foil events.^[5]

Bain won a silver medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in the women's foil team event.^[6][7]

In 1968m, she was living in London and was a member of the Pauleons Fencing Club.^[2]

References

1. "Judith Bain Olympic results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
2. "Judith Bain and Sandy leckie in Olympic team". The Scotsman. 23 July 1968. p. 17. Retrieved 18 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "McGregor to captain Scotland's Empire Games team". The Scotsman. 13 June 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 18 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "England Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
5. "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
6. "Fencing Foil Team – Women Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
7. "Fencing's Top Three Commonwealth Games". Team Scotland. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2025.

External links

• Judith Bain at Olympedia