Yana Egorian

Yana Egorian, also spelled Yegoryan, is a Russian left-handed sabre fencer born on 20 December 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. She moved to Khimki near Moscow at the age of six and fences for the Russian Central Sports Army Club. She won two gold medals at the inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won the individual sabre gold medal on 8 August, then a second gold in the team event alongside Sofya Velikaya, Yuliya Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko, beating Ukraine 45-30 in the final. She finished 2016 ranked first in the international fencing federation women's sabre rating and was named Athlete of the Year by the Russian Ministry of Sport. She is also a six-time team European champion and a two-time team world champion.