Yana Karapetovna Egorian (russian: Яна Карапетовна Егорян, hy, Յանա Կարապետովնա Եգորեան; also spelled Yegoryan, born 20 December 1993) is a Russian left-handed

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fencer, six-time team European champion, two-time team world champion, 2016 individual

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champion, and 2016 team Olympic champion.

Biography

Egorian was born in

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. When she was 6 years old, she moved to

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, 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 2010). At the Inaugural

2010 Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ...

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, 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

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. 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).

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Egorian, Yana 1993 births 21st-century Russian military personnel Living people Armenian emigrants to Russia Sportspeople from Yerevan Russian female sabre fencers Russian sportspeople of Armenian descent Russian people of Armenian descent Fencers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Olympic fencers of Russia Olympic medalists in fencing Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Russia Universiade medalists in fencing Universiade bronze medalists for Russia Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade