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

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,^[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

• 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 Olympics.com
• Timur Safin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)