Amalia Tătăran (born 15 July 1994 in

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...

) is a Romanian

épée The (, ; ), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains a ...

fencer, team silver medallist at the

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and team gold medallist at the

2015 European Games The 1st European Games (), also known as the 2015 European Games or Baku 2015 (), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Europe ...

Career

Tătăran took up fencing at the age of 9 in Satu Mare, a Romanian fencing stronghold, under the guidance of coach Francisc Csiszar. She won a bronze medal at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku. She also represented Romania at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, finishing fifth. In 2012, she became the youngest member of the Romanian national team. The same year she won the Romanian Cup after defeating in the final Olympic silver medallist

Ana Maria Brânză Ana Maria Popescu, formerly known as Ana Maria Brânză (, born 26 November 1984), is a Romanian left-handed épée Fencing, fencer. Popescu is a four-time team European champion, 2013 individual European champion, and two-time team world champi ...

. Tătăran won in 2013 a silver medal at the Junior European Championships in Budapest, followed by a team silver medal at the senior

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in Zagreb. For this performance she was named athlete opf the year of

Satu Mare County Satu Mare County (, , ) is a county (Counties of Romania, județ) of Romania, on the border with Hungary and Ukraine. The capital city is Satu Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Szatmár megye'', in German language, Ge ...

for the third time, after 2010 and 2011. In 2013, she transferred from CS Satu Mare to

CS Dinamo București CS Dinamo București (full name: Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București), or Dinamo for short, is a multi-sport club from Bucharest, Romania. History The club was founded in the spring of 1948, being subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. F ...

. In the 2014–15 season she won a bronze medal at the U23 European Championships in Vincenza. She was named a reserve for Romania at the 2015 European Games. In the individual event, she was eliminated in the table of 32 by Great Britain's

Corinna Lawrence Corinna Lawrence (born 25 June 1990) is a British épée fencer. Lawrence was the British Olympic Association's 2011 Olympic Athlete of the Year for Fencing. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's épée, but was defeated in t ...

. In the team event, no.2 seeded Romania accessed directly the semi-finals, where they saw off Russia. They overcame Estonia in the final to earn the gold medal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tataran, Amalia 1988 births Living people Romanian female épée fencers Sportspeople from Satu Mare Fencers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Fencers at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in fencing European Games gold medalists for Romania 21st-century Romanian sportswomen