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Russia Today
a day ago
- Sport
- Russia Today
Russian athlete takes fencing world title
Russia's two-time Olympic fencing champion, Yana Egorian, has won sabre gold at the World Championships in Georgia. She was competing under a neutral banner, as the participation of Russian athletes has reportedly sparked protest, following the widespread international bans placed on them following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 Having been recently permitted to compete in events the Russian fencing team has faced street protests and gestures from Ukrainian athletes throughout the championships in the Georgian capital Tbilisi at the weekend. Egorian however, defeated Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar in Sunday's final, and subsequently told the Russian sports channel Match TV: 'Russia, this is for you!' During the day, protesters with Ukrainian and Georgian flags held an anti-Russian rally in front of the Olympic Arena in the Georgian capital. They chanted slogans targeting athletes such as Egorian and other Central Army Sports Club (CSKA) members with military ranks under Russia's Defense Ministry, according to Interpress news. Protesters displayed provocative banners, lit firecrackers near the Russian team's hotel, and burned a Russian flag. The Russian Interests Section at the Swiss embassy in Georgia issued a statement on Telegram on Saturday in which it denounced the protests as 'Russophobic' which were intended to mobilize radicals and damage Tbilisi's reputation a host. Egorian, 31, was granted neutral competitor status in early July. She told Match TV she had been waiting six years for the competition, since her last international appearance at the 2019 world championships. Alongside Egorian, Russian fencer Kirill Borodachev and the female skewers team won silver medals. Ukrainian medalists Vlada Kharkova and Alina Komashchuk boycotted a medal photo shoot that included Borodachev and Egorian. In the run-up to the championships Ukrainian 2024 Olympic sabre champion Olga Kharlan – who did not attend the championships – demanded stricter rules for Russian neutral athletes, in an open letter published in her social media which was reportedly signed by 447 fencers. Kharlan was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for refusing to shake hands with Russia's Anna Smirnova. Moscow has repeatedly objected to restrictions placed on Russian athletes. President Vladimir Putin slammed them as 'ethnic discrimination' and a 'violation of the Olympic Charter principles against politicizing sports.'
Straits Times
a day ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Russian Yana Egorian wins women's sabre gold at world fencing championships as neutral athlete
Find out what's new on ST website and app. From left: Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar (silver), individual neutral athlete Yana Egorian (gold) and China's Pan Qimiao Pan (bronze) at the medal ceremony for the women's sabre individual competition at the FIE Fencing World Championships in Tbilisi on July 27, 2025. Russian Yana Egorian won gold in the women's sabre at the World Fencing Championships in Georgia on Sunday, where she was competing as a neutral athlete. Egorian, a gold medallist in both the individual and team sabre events at the Rio Olympics, claimed a 15-11 victory over Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar in the final in Tbilisi. Russian Kirill Borodachev won silver in the men's individual foil earlier in the competition, also as a neutral athlete. 'I'm very happy. Today was very difficult, especially when I fenced with Lisa Pusztai (round of 64),' Egorian said. 'I spoke with my coach, and he understood what I didn't do right, and after that I fenced better. Now I want to win the (next) Olympic Games.' The decision by the sport's global governing body (FIE) to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the event sparked a backlash from Ukraine's fencing federation, which said it was considering legal action over the inclusion of athletes with Russian military ranks. More than 440 fencers from 40 countries signed an open letter urging the FIE to reinstate rigorous background checks on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing under neutral status. The FIE has said its decision 'underscores the federation's commitment to peace, fairness, and the global unity of sport'. REUTERS
The Hindu
a day ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Russian Egorian wins gold at World Fencing Championships as neutral athlete
Russian Yana Egorian won gold in the women's sabre at the World Fencing Championships in Georgia on Sunday, where she was competing as a neutral athlete. Egorian, a gold medallist in both the individual and team sabre events at the Rio Olympics, claimed a 15-11 victory over Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar in the final in Tbilisi. ALSO READ | Fencers urge federation to reinstate checks on 'neutral' Russian, Belarusian athletes ahead of World Championships Russian Kirill Borodachev won silver in the men's individual foil earlier in the competition, also as a neutral athlete. 'I'm very happy. Today was very difficult, especially when I fenced with Lisa Pusztai (round of 64),' Egorian said. 'I spoke with my coach, and he understood what I didn't do right, and after that I fenced better. Now I want to win the (next) Olympic Games.' The decision by the sport's global governing body (FIE) to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the event sparked a backlash from Ukraine's fencing federation, which said it was considering legal action over the inclusion of athletes with Russian military ranks. More than 440 fencers from 40 countries signed an open letter urging the FIE to reinstate rigorous background checks on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing under neutral status. The FIE has said its decision 'underscores the Federation's commitment to peace, fairness, and the global unity of sport'.
The Star
a day ago
- Sport
- The Star
Fencing-Russian Egorian wins gold at world championships as neutral athlete
(Reuters) -Russian Yana Egorian won gold in the women's sabre at the World Fencing Championships in Georgia on Sunday, where she was competing as a neutral athlete. Egorian, a gold medallist in both the individual and team sabre events at the Rio Olympics, claimed a 15-11 victory over Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar in the final in Tbilisi. Russian Kirill Borodachev won silver in the men's individual foil earlier in the competition, also as a neutral athlete. "I'm very happy. Today was very difficult, especially when I fenced with Lisa Pusztai (round of 64)," Egorian said. "I spoke with my coach, and he understood what I didn't do right, and after that I fenced better. Now I want to win the (next) Olympic Games." The decision by the sport's global governing body (FIE) to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the event sparked a backlash from Ukraine's fencing federation, which said it was considering legal action over the inclusion of athletes with Russian military ranks. More than 440 fencers from 40 countries signed an open letter urging the FIE to reinstate rigorous background checks on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing under neutral status. The FIE has said its decision "underscores the Federation's commitment to peace, fairness, and the global unity of sport". (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia's Egorian wins world fencing gold as neutral athlete
Russia's two-time Olympic sabre champion Yana Egorian, competing under a neutral banner, was on Sunday crowned fencing world champion amid protests in Tbilisi. Egorian defeated Poland's Zuzanna Cieslar 15-11 in the final in the Georgian capital. The 31-year-old, who won both the individual and team titles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, won her first world championship individual gold medal. Egorian is among the Russian and Belarusian fencers allowed to compete under a neutral banner, despite being a member of CSKA Moscow, a club historically linked to the Russian military. On Sunday, dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Olympic Palace in Tbilisi to protest at the participation of fencers from both countries, some of whom "are military personnel", protesters told the Interpressnews agency. In July, the International Fencing Federation (IFF) decided to simplify its procedure for granting Neutral Individual Athlete (NIA) status, allowing the return of certain fencers who had been excluded from competition following the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive. That decision sparked debate both before and during the world championships. In the other final of the day, Japan's Koki Kano, Olympic epee champion in Paris, won the title, defeating Hungary's Gergely Siklosi. lve/jde/ea/gj
