Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo
In 1914, Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo won the second prize at the 1914 Salle Giandomenici international women's fencing competition, the first Dutch international fencing tournament in Amsterdam. Of the eight matches she only lost to the British champion C. E. Martin Edmunds who won the tournament. Later the year she won the first prize at the international 1914 "La Femme Contemporaine" women's fencing competition in Antwerp.