Yana Karapetovna Egorian (, ; also spelled Yegoryan, born 20 December 1993) is a Russian left-handed sabre fencer, six-time team European champion, two-time team world champion, 2016 individual Olympic champion, and 2016 team Olympic champion.
Biography Egorian was born in Yerevan, Armenia.Yana Egorian. "Not many people in Armenia know about my success" When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast. She is a Russian Armed Forces athlete, and her clubs are the Russian Central Sports Army Club, and the Khimki Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve.
Achievements
Egorian won two silver medals at the European Cadet Championships (2009 and 20102010 European Championships U17 U17 Sabre female at 02.03.2010 in Athen . ophardt-team.org). At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won two gold medals. She finished fifth at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku.Yana Egorian's results at 2010 Cadet World Championships . Fencingworldwide.com. On 8 August 2016, Egorian won the individual gold medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro. On 13 August, she won her second Olympic gold medal in the team event. The Russian team, composed of Egorian, Sofya Velikaya, Yuliya Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko, came away with the gold medal, defeating Team Ukraine (the 2008 Olympic women's team sabre champion) in the final 45–30.
She finished 2016 as Nr. 1 in the FIE women's sabre rating.
Egorian was named The Athlete of the Year by the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.
Yegorian was not among the Russian athletes reinstated by the FIE in May 2023 due to her ties with the Russian Army.
Medal record
Olympic Games YearLocationEventPosition2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIndividual Women's Sabre1st2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTeam Women's Sabre1st
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2013 Budapest, HungaryTeam Women's Sabre2nd2014 Kazan, RussiaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2015 Moscow, RussiaTeam Women's Sabre1st2018 Wuxi, ChinaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Women's Sabre2nd2019 Budapest, HungaryTeam Women's Sabre1st
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2013 Zagreb, CroatiaTeam Women's Sabre1st2014 Strasbourg, FranceTeam Women's Sabre1st2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandTeam Women's Sabre1st2016 Toruń, PolandTeam Women's Sabre1st2017 Tallinn, EstoniaTeam Women's Sabre2nd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Women's Sabre1st2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Women's Sabre1st
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition2015-05-29 Moscow, RussiaIndividual Women's Sabre2nd2016-03-25 Seoul, South KoreaIndividual Women's Sabre1st2016-12-16 Cancún, MexicoIndividual Women's Sabre1st2017-03-31 Seoul, South KoreaIndividual Women's Sabre1st2017-12-15 Cancún, MexicoIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition2011-03-11 Istanbul, TurkeyIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2013-05-03 Chicago, IllinoisIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2015-10-30 Orléans, FranceIndividual Women's Sabre1st2016-02-19 Sint-Niklaas, BelgiumIndividual Women's Sabre2nd2017-05-12 Tunis, TunisiaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2017-11-17 Sint-Niklaas, BelgiumIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2019-03-22 Sint-Niklaas, BelgiumIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2022-01-14 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
Honours and awards Order of Honour (25 August 2016) – for high achievements at the 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the will to win and goal-oriented approach. Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (2016).
See also List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women) List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals
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