Svetlana Sheveleva (born 26 January 1997) is a left-handed Russian fencer. She won the Russian women's sabre championship final in 2018.
Life
Sheveleva was born in Moscow in 1997. She tried several sports but they did not appeal. At the suggestion of her mother she took up fencing at the age of ten.
In 2016 she travelled to
Bourges
Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry.
History
The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, t ...
in France where she was the best at individual sabre in the World Junior Championships.
[ In 2018 she took a shared bronze medal again in the individual sabre in the 2018 European Championships at Novi Sad in Serbia.
She was coached by Rustam Mansurovich Karimov][ and national coach Christian Bauer][ In 2017 she was recognised as a "Master of Sport of International Class" by the Russian Federation.]Sofya Velikaya
Sofiya Aleksandrovna Velikaya ( rus, Софья Александровна Великая, , ˈsofʲjə vʲɪˈlʲikəjə; born 8 June 1985) is a Russian sabre fencer.
Velikaya is a former European champion (four-time individual, six-time t ...
, Yulia Gavrilova or Yana Yegoryan to be in the final. After the victory she was ranked 3rd in Russia.
References
1997 births
Living people
Martial artists from Moscow
Russian female sabre fencers
21st-century Russian women
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