Yana Egorian

Yana Karapetovna Egorian (Russian: Яна Карапетовна Егорян; also spelled Yegoryan, born 20 December 1993) is a Russian sabre fencer. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]

Yana Egorian
Egorian in 2014
Personal information
Full nameYana Karapetovna Egorian
Born (1993-12-20) 20 December 1993
Yerevan, Armenia
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
CountryRussia
SportFencing
WeaponSabre
HandLeft-handed
ClubCSKA Moscow[2]
Head coachChristian Bauer (national)
Sergei Semin (personal)[2]
Assistant coachYelena Jemayeva
FIE rankingCurrent ranking
Domestic ranking2009/2010 SWS Ranking
Medal record
Women's fencing
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroIndividual sabre
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam sabre
World Championships
2015 MoscowTeam sabre
2019 BudapestTeam sabre
2013 BudapestTeam sabre
2018 WuxiTeam sabre
2014 KazanIndividual sabre
2018 WuxiIndividual sabre
European Championships
2013 ZagrebTeam sabre
2014 StrasbourgTeam sabre
2015 MontreuxTeam sabre
2016 ToruńTeam sabre
2018 Novi SadTeam sabre
2019 DüsseldorfTeam sabre
2017 TbilisiTeam sabre
Summer Universiade
2013 KazanTeam sabre
Military World Games
2019 WuhanIndividual sabre
2019 WuhanTeam sabre
Youth Olympic Games
2010 SingaporeIndividual sabre
Representing Mixed-NOCs team
2010 SingaporeMixed team sabre

Biography

Yana Egorian was born on 20 December 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast, where she engaged in fencing under the guidance of Sergei Semin. Later, Yelena Jemayeva also started to train her. She chose sabre fencing as her specialty.

Achievements

Egorian won two silver medals at the European Cadet Championships (2009 and 2010[3]). At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won two gold medals. She finished fifth at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku.[4] 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.[5]

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. She was awarded 500,000 rubles.[6]

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.[7]
  • Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (2016).[8]
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See also

References
  1. "Yana Egorian". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016.
  2. Yana Egorian Archived 2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  3. 2010 European Championships U17 U17 Sabre female at 02.03.2010 in Athen Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. ophardt-team.org
  4. Yana Egorian's results at 2010 Cadet World Championships. Fencingworldwide.com.
  5. "Rio 2016 Women's team sabre results". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  6. "Яна Егорян стала лауреатом премии "Лучшая спортсменка"". gazeta.ru. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  7. "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25.08.2016 № 429 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»". publication.pravo.gov.ru.
  8. "Министр обороны встретился с армейскими спортсменами-триумфаторами Олимпийских игр в Рио : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации". function.mil.ru.
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