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Timur Marselevich Safin ( rus, Тимур Марселевич Сафин, , tʲɪˈmur ˈsafʲɪn; born 4 August 1992) is a Russian right-handed foil fencer.
He is a two-time team European champion and 2016 individual European champion. A two-time
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, Safin is a 2021 team Olympic silver medalist, 2016 team Olympic champion, and 2016 individual Olympic bronze medalist.
Career
Safin, who is of Tatar descent, took up fencing when he was nine years old after a coach came to make a presentation at his school. He specialized in foil, joining the junior Russian team in 2009. He earned an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the 2011 U23 European Championships in Kazan. He won a team silver medal in the 2012 Junior European Championships and was crowned Junior World champion the same year in Moscow. In the senior category, he made his breakthrough in the 2013–14 season. He won the Challenge Revenu after defeating in the final team Olympic champion Andrea Baldini. At the 2014 European Championships in Strasbourg, he was defeated in the table of 16 by eventual gold winner James-Andrew Davis, and in the team event he helped Russia conquer a bronze medal. In the 2014 World Championships in Kazan he made his way to the semifinals, defeating along the way German championPeter Joppich
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Biography
Joppich is a five-time World Champion in Foil with four Individual titles and one Team title. He won the gold medal in 2010 World Fencing Championships after beating Lei S ...
. He lost by a single hit to world no.1 Ma Jianfei
Ma Jianfei (, born 29 July 1984) is a Chinese fencer, silver medallist in the 2014 World Fencing Championships at Kazan and team silver medallist in the 2011 World Fencing Championships at Catania. He won the 2013–14 Fencing World Cup.
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of China and came away with a bronze medal. For this performance he was named breakthrough of the year by the Russian Fencing Federation.
Medal Record
Olympic Games
World Championship
European Championship
Grand Prix
World Cup
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