Yana Karapetovna Egorian (Russian: Яна Карапетовна Егорян; 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.[4]
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Full name | Yana Karapetovna Egorian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tbilisi, Georgia | 20 December 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Head coach | Christian Bauer (national) Sergei Semin (personal)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach | Yelena Jemayeva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | Current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic ranking | 2009/2010 SWS Ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editEgorian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast.[citation needed] 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.[2]
Achievements
editEgorian won two silver medals at the European Cadet Championships (2009 and 2010[5]). At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won two gold medals. She finished fifth at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku.[6] 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.[7]
She finished 2016 as Nr. 1 in the FIE women's sabre rating.[citation needed]
Egorian was named The Athlete of the Year by the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.[8]
Yegorian was not among the Russian athletes reinstated by the FIE in May 2023 due to her ties with the Russian Army.[9]
Medal record
editOlympic Games
editYear | Location | Event | Position |
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2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st[10] |
2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[11] |
World Championship
editYear | Location | Event | Position |
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2013 | Budapest, Hungary | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd[12] |
2014 | Kazan, Russia | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[13] |
2015 | Moscow, Russia | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[14] |
2018 | Wuxi, China | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[15] |
2018 | Wuxi, China | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd[16] |
2019 | Budapest, Hungary | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[17] |
European Championship
editYear | Location | Event | Position |
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2013 | Zagreb, Croatia | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[18] |
2014 | Strasbourg, France | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[19] |
2015 | Montreux, Switzerland | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[20] |
2016 | Toruń, Poland | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[21] |
2017 | Tallinn, Estonia | Team Women's Sabre | 2nd[22] |
2018 | Novi Sad, Serbia | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[23] |
2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Team Women's Sabre | 1st[24] |
Grand Prix
editDate | Location | Event | Position |
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2015-05-29 | Moscow, Russia | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd[25] |
2016-03-25 | Seoul, South Korea | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st[26] |
2016-12-16 | Cancún, Mexico | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st[27] |
2017-03-31 | Seoul, South Korea | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st[28] |
2017-12-15 | Cancún, Mexico | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[29] |
World Cup
editDate | Location | Event | Position |
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2011-03-11 | Istanbul, Turkey | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[30] |
2013-05-03 | Chicago, Illinois | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[31] |
2015-10-30 | Orléans, France | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st[32] |
2016-02-19 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd[33] |
2017-05-12 | Tunis, Tunisia | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[34] |
2017-11-17 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[35] |
2019-03-22 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[36] |
2022-01-14 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd[37] |
Honours and awards
edit- 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.[38]
- Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (2016).[39]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ a b "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org.
- ^ a b Yana Egorian Archived 2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ 2010 European Championships U17 U17 Sabre female at 02.03.2010 in Athen Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. ophardt-team.org
- ^ Yana Egorian's results at 2010 Cadet World Championships Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Fencingworldwide.com.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Women's team sabre results". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ "Яна Егорян стала лауреатом премии "Лучшая спортсменка"". gazeta.ru. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ "Олимпийские чемпионки Великая, Егорян, Позднякова не допущены к международным соревнованиям". 11 May 2023.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
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- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
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- ^ "Министр обороны встретился с армейскими спортсменами-триумфаторами Олимпийских игр в Рио : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации". function.mil.ru.
External links
edit- Media related to Yana Egorian at Wikimedia Commons
- Yana Egorian at the International Fencing Federation
- 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)