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]
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]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)
- List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals
References
- ^ a b "Yana Egorian". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016.
- ^ a b Yana Egorian Archived 2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ 2010 European Championships U17 U17 Sabre female at 02.03.2010 in Athen Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. ophardt-team.org
- ^ Yana Egorian's results at 2010 Cadet World Championships. Fencingworldwide.com.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Яна Егорян стала лауреатом премии "Лучшая спортсменка"". gazeta.ru. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25.08.2016 № 429 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»". publication.pravo.gov.ru.
- ^ "Министр обороны встретился с армейскими спортсменами-триумфаторами Олимпийских игр в Рио : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации". function.mil.ru.
External links
Media related to Yana Egorian at Wikimedia Commons
- Yana Egorian at the International Fencing Federation
- Yana Egorian at Olympics.com
- Yana Egorian at Olympics.com
- Yana Egorian at the European Fencing Confederation
- Yana Yegoryan at the Russian Fencing Federation (in Russian) (in English)
- Yana Yegoryan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Yerevan
- Russian female fencers
- Russian sabre fencers
- Russian Armenians
- Fencers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Olympic fencers of Russia
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Russia
- Universiade medalists in fencing
- Universiade bronze medalists for Russia
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia