Timur Marselevich Safin (Russian: Тимур Марселевич Сафин, IPA: [tʲɪˈmur ˈsafʲɪn]; born 4 August 1992) is a Russian right-handed foil fencer.[1]

Timur Safin
Personal information
Full name	Timur Marselevich Safin
Born	(1992-08-04) 4 August 1992 (age 30) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nationality	Russian
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil, Sabre
Hand	Right-handed
National coach	Stefano Cerioni
Club	SDYUSSHOR No.19
Head coach	Ruslan Nasibullin, Lira Grushina
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's fencing Representing ROC Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team foil Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team foil 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual foil World Championships 2014 Kazan Individual foil 2018 Wuxi Team foil European Championships 2018 Novi Sad Team foil 2016 Toruń Individual foil 2016 Toruń Team foil 2017 Tbilisi Individual foil 2017 Tbilisi Team foil 2014 Strasbourg Team foil European Games 2015 Baku Team foil Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Individual foil 2019 Wuhan Team foil 2019 Wuhan Team sabre

He is a two-time team European champion and 2016 individual European champion. A two-time Olympian, Safin is a 2021 team Olympic silver medalist, 2016 team Olympic champion, and 2016 individual Olympic bronze medalist.

Career

Safin, who is of Tatar descent,[2] took up fencing when he was nine years old after a coach came to make a presentation at his school.[3] He specialized in foil, joining the junior Russian team in 2009. He earned an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the 2011 U23 European Championships in Kazan. He won a team silver medal in the 2012 Junior European Championships and was crowned Junior World champion the same year in Moscow.[3]

In the senior category, he made his breakthrough in the 2013–14 season. He won the Challenge Revenu after defeating in the final team Olympic champion Andrea Baldini.[4] At the 2014 European Championships in Strasbourg, he was defeated in the table of 16 by eventual gold winner James-Andrew Davis, and in the team event he helped Russia conquer a bronze medal. In the 2014 World Championships in Kazan he made his way to the semifinals, defeating along the way German champion Peter Joppich. He lost by a single hit to world no.1 Ma Jianfei of China and came away with a bronze medal. For this performance he was named breakthrough of the year by the Russian Fencing Federation.[5]

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[6]
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Foil	1st[7]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Foil	2nd[8]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[9]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	3rd[10]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	3rd[11]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Individual Men's Foil	1st[12]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Foil	1st[13]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[14]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[15]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	1st[16]

Grand Prix

Year	Location	Event	Position
03/17/2017	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	1st[17]
12/01/2017	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[18]
05/19/2018	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[19]
05/17/2019	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[20]

World Cup

Year	Location	Event	Position
10/16/2015	San Jose, California	Individual Men's Foil	1st[21]
01/20/2017	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[22]
02/10/2017	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[23]
05/05/2017	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[24]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Timur Safin.

• Timur Safin at the International Fencing Federation
• Timur Safin at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
• Timur Safin at the Russian Fencing Federation (in Russian) (in English) (archive)
• Timur Safin at the International Olympic Committee
• Timur Safin at Olympics.com
• Timur Safin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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[it] Timur Safin

[ru] Сафин, Тимур Марселевич