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]

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Yana Egorian
Egorian in 2014
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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

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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]

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]

• 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]

• List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)
• List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals