Russian fencer

Yana Karapetovna Egorian (Russian: Яна Карапетовна Егорян, Armenian: Յանա Կարապետովնա Եգորեան; 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.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Achievements
• 3 Medal Record
  • 3.1 Olympic Games
  • 3.2 World Championship
  • 3.3 European Championship
  • 3.4 Grand Prix
  • 3.5 World Cup
• 4 Honours and awards
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Biography

Yana Egorian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast, where she engaged in fencing under the guidance of Sergei Semin. Later, Yelena Jemayeva also started to train her. She chose sabre fencing as her specialty.

Achievements

Yana Egorian and Putin

Egorian won two silver medals at the European Cadet Championships (2009 and 2010). At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won two gold medals. She finished fifth at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku. 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.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

World Championship

European Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

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

References

External links

• Media related to Yana Egorian at Wikimedia Commons
• Yana Egorian at the International Fencing Federation
• Yana Egorian at the International Olympic Committee
• Yana Egorian at Olympics.com
• Yana Egorian at the European Fencing Confederation
• Yana Yegoryan at the Russian Fencing Federation (in Russian) (in English)
• Yana Yegoryan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)