Pavel Kolobkov

Pavel Anatolyevich Kolobkov, born on 22 September 1969 in Moscow, is a retired Russian and formerly Soviet épée fencer who won one gold, two silver and three bronze medals at five Olympic Games between 1988 and 2004, and 27 individual and team medals across the Olympic, World and European championships. After retiring he moved into sports administration: he was appointed Russian Deputy Minister of Sport in 2012, served as Russia's representative to the World Anti-Doping Agency until January 2016, when he lost the post after WADA declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency non-compliant, was Russian Minister of Sport from 2016 until President Putin dismissed him on 15 January 2020, and in March 2020 became a board member and deputy chief executive of Gazprom Neft. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article.