Yana Egorian
Egorian in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Yana Karapetovna Egorian
Born	(1993-12-20) 20 December 1993 (age 30) Tbilisi, Georgia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	Left-handed
Club	CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club) [RUS] Khimki Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS][2][3]
Head coach	Christian Bauer (national) Sergei Semin (personal)[3]
Assistant coach	Yelena Jemayeva
FIE ranking	Current ranking
Domestic ranking	2009/2010 SWS Ranking
Medal record Women's fencing Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual sabre 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team sabre World Championships 2015 Moscow Team sabre 2019 Budapest Team sabre 2013 Budapest Team sabre 2018 Wuxi Team sabre 2014 Kazan Individual sabre 2018 Wuxi Individual sabre European Championships 2013 Zagreb Team sabre 2014 Strasbourg Team sabre 2015 Montreux Team sabre 2016 Toruń Team sabre 2018 Novi Sad Team sabre 2019 Düsseldorf Team sabre 2017 Tbilisi Team sabre Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan Team sabre Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Individual sabre 2019 Wuhan Team sabre Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore Individual sabre Representing Mixed-NOCs team 2010 Singapore Mixed team sabre

Yana Karapetovna Egorian (Russian: Яна Карапетовна Егорян; also spelled Yegoryan, born 20 December 1993) is a Russian left-handed sabre fencer, six-time team European champion, two-time team world champion, 2016 individual Olympic champion, and 2016 team Olympic champion.^[4]

Biography

Egorian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2]

Achievements

Egorian won two silver medals at the European Cadet Championships (2009 and 2010^[5]). At the Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, she won two gold medals. She finished fifth at the 2010 Cadet World Championships in Baku.^[6] 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.^[7]

She finished 2016 as Nr. 1 in the FIE women's sabre rating.^{[citation needed]}

Egorian was named The Athlete of the Year by the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.^[8]

Yegorian was not among the Russian athletes reinstated by the FIE in May 2023 due to her ties with the Russian Army.^[9]

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[10]
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Women's Sabre	1st[11]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[12]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[13]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Women's Sabre	1st[14]
2018	Wuxi, China	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[15]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[16]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Sabre	1st[17]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Zagreb, Croatia	Team Women's Sabre	1st[18]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Women's Sabre	1st[19]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Women's Sabre	1st[20]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Women's Sabre	1st[21]
2017	Tallinn, Estonia	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[22]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Women's Sabre	1st[23]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	1st[24]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2015-05-29	Moscow, Russia	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[25]
2016-03-25	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[26]
2016-12-16	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[27]
2017-03-31	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[28]
2017-12-15	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[29]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2011-03-11	Istanbul, Turkey	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[30]
2013-05-03	Chicago, Illinois	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[31]
2015-10-30	Orléans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[32]
2016-02-19	Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd[33]
2017-05-12	Tunis, Tunisia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[34]
2017-11-17	Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[35]
2019-03-22	Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[36]
2022-01-14	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[37]

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.^[38]
• Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (2016).^[39]