Timur Marselevich Safin (; born 4 August 1992) is a Russian right-handed foil fencer.
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. His clubs are the Central Sports Army Club [RUS], and the Ufa Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve.
Career Safin, who is of Tatar descent,«Не только башкиры, уже и узбеки тянут на себя!»: как у татар «отбирают» чемпионов Рио took up fencing when he was nine years old after a coach came to make a presentation at his school. 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.
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. 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.
Medal record
Olympic Games YearLocationEventPosition2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIndividual Men's Foil3rd2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTeam Men's Foil1st2021 Tokyo, JapanTeam Men's Foil2nd
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2014 Kazan, RussiaIndividual Men's Foil3rd2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Men's Foil3rd
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2014 Strasbourg, FranceTeam Men's Foil3rd2016 Toruń, PolandIndividual Men's Foil1st2016 Toruń, PolandTeam Men's Foil1st2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Men's Foil2nd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Foil2nd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Men's Foil1st
Grand Prix YearLocationEventPosition03/17/2017 Long Beach, CaliforniaIndividual Men's Foil1st12/01/2017 Turin, ItalyIndividual Men's Foil2nd05/19/2018 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual Men's Foil2nd05/17/2019 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual Men's Foil3rd
World Cup YearLocationEventPosition10/16/2015 San Jose, CaliforniaIndividual Men's Foil1st01/20/2017 Paris, FranceIndividual Men's Foil2nd02/10/2017 Bonn, GermanyIndividual Men's Foil3rd05/05/2017 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual Men's Foil3rd
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