What is Flor Isava Fonseca?
[[File:Flor Isava-Fonseca (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Isava Fonseca in 1997.]] '''Flor Isava Fonseca''' (20 May 1921 &ndash; 25 July 2020)<ref name=death>[https://efectococuyo.com/deportes/fallece-flor-isava-la-eterna-dama-del-olimpismo-venezolano/ Fallece Flor Isava, la eterna dama del olimpismo venezolano] {{in lang|es}}</ref> was a [[Venezuela]]n 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]].<ref>[http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Movement.pdf International Olympic Committee Factsheet, June 2012] Retrieved 9 July 2013.</ref> She was the first woman to be on the executive board in 1990.<ref>{{cite book|last=Findling, John E.|title=Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmXi_-Jujj0C&dq=Flor+Isava-Fonseca+first+woman&pg=PA441|author2=Pelle, Kimberly|page=441|year=2002|isbn=9780313322785}}</ref> Fonseca died on 25 July 2020, aged 99.<ref name=death/> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Isava Fonseca, Flor}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Venezuelan writers]] [[Category:Venezuelan journalists]] [[Category:International Olympic Committee]] {{bio-stub}}